Higher values of each of these variables are preferred to lower values.
For the criteria in Table 1, higher values are preferred to lower values as in the case of Age, SystBP, and HDL and "Yes" is preferred to "No"—as in the case of Smoker and Diabetic.
For example, normal pulse rates of 50 99 bpm are given a score of 0, while elevated and lowered levels, 100 109 and 40 49 bpm respectively, are both given a score of 5. Thus, higher APACHE III scores are preferred to lower scores, as the higher scores indicate greater severity of disease and therefore greater risk of death within six months (considered the positive diagnosis).
Claiming that there is an objective order of values, or in Pascal's terminology, an "ordre du coeur" (order of the heart), necessarily entails that the higher values "ought" to be preferred to the lower.
We define treatments with a higher value to be preferred to treatments with a lower value.
8 In general, for VTE prophylaxis LMWH and fondaparinux should be preferred to UFH whenever possible because of lower risk of heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) with LMWH and virtually no risk of HIT with fondaparinux (see below).
A higher fractional coverage of the total reference sequence length is generally preferred to lower coverage.
The consensus of our participants showed that greater elevation angles of recent Sleeping Beauty productions are, in general, preferred to lower elevation angles of earlier productions.
Higher values indicate that the attribute level is preferred to levels with lower values.
The 0.3 (3%) threshold is preferred to either higher of lower thresholds because a higher threshold (e.g. 0.06) risks missing many potential species while a lower threshold (e.g. 0.02) will more accurately delimit lineages but risks identifying many conspecific lineages as candidate species.
