The phrase "as a single cost" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing expenses or pricing that are combined into one total amount.
Example: "The total expenses for the project will be presented as a single cost to simplify the budgeting process."
Alternatives: "as one total" or "combined into one cost".
By using a user-specified control parameter, we combine the rate and distortion into a single cost function as follows: (9).
A similar result occurs when a single cost such as hospitalization is varied by 20%.
The three requirements given by (11), (12), and (14) are combined into a single cost function, written as J m + 1 = δ W k m + 1 2 + Re λ * D k m − S k m W k m + 1 X k m + α max, k W k m + 1 2 − C k 2 z (15).
The Victorian casemix system assigns a single cost weight (known as a "weighted inlier-equivalent separation" (WIES) value) to each episode-of-care that, reflects its cost relative to the cost of all episodes-of-care.
The total twelve-year cost of the smallpox eradication effort was $300 million – the same as a single-year cost of small pox vaccination, quarantine and treatment the year the campaign began.
Connectivity was a significant cost for many telehealth services, with Bishai[ 62] reporting T1 line charges as their largest single cost, and Chua[ 36] noting that the hourly cost of ISDN communication was almost identical to the hourly pay of a consultant neurologist.
As a single person, these costs were beyond my budget.
Furthermore, we note that if a subset of mutant strains are believed to be conditionally independent given their MRCA, that subset can be pooled as a single library, reducing the cost without loss of information.
The so called 'eco-costs of land conversion' is proposed as a single indicator, being the marginal costs of prevention (or compensation) of the negative environmental effects on biodiversity caused by change of land-use.
These data are reported as factorial values relative to a single transport cost and thus cannot be easily compared to the values reported by Ghesquiere and Bunkens (Ghesquiere and Bunkens, 1991).
