The phrase "abnormal ranging" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to measurements, statistics, or behaviors that deviate from the norm.
Example: "The study revealed abnormal ranging in the temperature data, indicating potential errors in the equipment used."
Alternatives: "irregular variation" or "unusual range".
8.8% of children scored in the "abnormal" range of SDQ total difficulties scores and 31.1% had an abnormality in at least one subscale.
In a sense, she was lucky; her hormone levels were clearly in the abnormal range.
"When people see numbers in the abnormal range they want to do something about it," Dr. Kathiresan said.
The SDQ was designed so that about 10% of children and adolescents would fall into the "abnormal" range on the total difficulties score, the Australian government's survey of child and adolescent mental health says.
The screen revealed that the pregnancy was in the abnormal range: Her baby's chances of having Down syndrome were 1 in 191.
In a study, which they reviewed, of 123 subjects with no psychiatric history who were given the test, most at a California blood bank, 16percentt scored in the abnormal range on the test's schizophrenia index -- far higher than the 1percentt incidence of the illness in the general population indicated in other surveys.
Dr. Steven Heymsfield, executive director of the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Louisiana, who wrote an editorial accompanying the study, said that for overweight people, if indicators like cholesterol "are in the abnormal range, then that weight is affecting you," but that if indicators are normal, there's no reason to "go on a crash diet".
Among migraineurs, none was excluded due to abnormal range of performance on both screening tests.
The PCS correlated significantly with total joint abnormal range of motion (P=.0003), kyphosis (P=.0011), Schober test (spine flexion) (P<.0001), age (P<.0001), radiographic total joint severity (P=.0336), shoulder severity (P=.0374), and total spine severity scores (P=.0023).
Diagnosis of intervertebral instability is based on measurement of abnormal range of segmental motion in sagittal plane through functional flexion extension radiography; however, this concise measure does not take into account the progression of segmental motion in between flexion and extension extremes.
