The phrase "a previous point" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring back to something that was mentioned earlier in a discussion or text.
Example: "As I mentioned in a previous point, the data supports our hypothesis."
Alternatives: "an earlier point" or "a prior point".
"You look back at a previous point in your life and find it difficult to believe how little you knew.
That is, if somehow we could go back in time and re-start evolution from a previous point, would the evolutionary outcome be the same?
Nor is there anything complex in its mechanism: you simply retreat to the nearest closet, clench your fists, and wish yourself back to a previous point in your history.
The hazard function represents the conditional probability of an event occurring at the next time point, given that the event has not occurred up to a previous point.
This may cause slow convergence, since a small number of events (like ping-pong HOs or HO failures) may determine the direction to be switched and return to a previous point.
If the individual is on the edge of a previous point in the network, then he will have a much greater tendency to be a "free rider", and thus to refuse to share original, own, explicit or implicit knowledge.
So, reviewing the available evidence on SMBG-related costs, we have to face that the conclusion made by Davidson (18) in a previous point-counterpoint series is still applicable; SMBG in noninsulin-treated type 2 diabetic patients is a waste of money.
As a caveat to the previous point, once you do actually have a handle on the facts, move boldly and without reservation.
With Williams leading, 4-2, 30-0, in the third set in Paris, the crowd was jeering her because she had correctly questioned a line call on the previous point by circling a ball mark.
Extending on the previous point, a functional PCA [ 11], which imposes a smoothness constraint on the eigenvectors (thus making them eigenfunctions) can be of interest.
The new iterate is obtained by a convex combination of the previous point and the one generated by a projection-type method along a new descent direction.
