"What happens," she said, "is that five kids leave in three classes, and it's not enough to combine two classes and lose a teacher.
"By combining two world-class organizations to create the fastest-growing major pharmaceutical company in the world, we are positioned for global leadership".
This paper adopts a similar philosophy, restricting consideration to a class of nonlinear filters obtained by combining two previously studied filter classes: the Hampel filter described in Section 2, and the median filter extensions described in Sections 4 and 7.
JetBlue, which started in 2000, has attracted a loyal clientele by combining two seemingly contradictory philosophies: the low fares and single-class seating pioneered by Southwest plus frills and personality aplenty -- the airline is relaxed and hip.
The fixed effects (b) of dam age in months, sex of the calf, and their interaction were considered by combining eight different first-calf age group classes (20 to 23, 23 to 25, 25 to 27, 27 to 29, 29 to 31, 31 to 33, 33 to 35, and 35 to 38 months) with sex of calf for a total of 16 nominal age-sex subclasses.
Eighty-one environmental units classes were previously derived by combining four environmental variables: mean annual rainfall, mean annual temperature, soil fertility (based on geology) and slope [60].
His job was created by combining five G.M. marketing divisions.
The CEOs we studied did so by combining four strategies.
The original ranks (0 to 8) were reclassified by combining the six highest classes (3 to 8) where the numbers were small, the final response variable having ordered values i = 1 to 4. The explanatory variables BMI, weight, height and WC were treated in quartiles to allow for curvilinear associations.
