Interestingly, a group's performance was not well explained by the average, median or best performance of its members as individuals.
For the tissue samples and the untreated cell lines, relative expression levels were calculated by the relative standard curve method, by dividing the median quantity of the sample by the average median quantity of the two controls VDAC2 and PES1.
Those are relatively high bars -- by comparison, the average median household income in the U.S. is $52,762, according to the most recent census data.
27 The average median OS estimated by the model was 29.15 and 29.26 months in the PLD/carboplatin and paclitaxel/carboplatin arms, respectively.
In the epoetin alfa group, the average median CLAS score increased by 36% from baseline (56.85 mm) to last observation (77.30 mm), with increases of up to 45% (to 82.70 mm) noted after 12 weeks.
This is evidenced by the short average (median) distance that this group covers daily – 5 km.
To facilitate fluidity-based comparisons between species, one possibility is to normalize genomic fluidity by the average or median phylogenetic distance between members of the considered group, such as the phylogenetic distance computed using a multiple alignment of housekeeping genes [ 2].
Overall knowledge of nutrition was reported by most as average (median, 3 on Likert scale average); however, respondents were less knowledgeable on the management of nutrition-related disorders.
If the number of replicates were very large (e.g., hundreds), the task would be relatively easy; since the ratio of expression levels between the two conditions would be well estimated by the average ratio or median ratio, the genes could simply be ranked by one of these estimates.
Since there are five realizations (replicates) for each of the two entries in each classifier, we summarized the information for each allele, by taking a robust average: median of the relevant signals from five spots, for each of the classifiers.
Similar trends are produced by taking the average of medians across populations: A. lyrata: 0.189 ± 0.050; A. thaliana: 0.198 ± 0.048.
