Sentence examples for continuous criteria from inspiring English sources

Weighted linear combination is based on the concept of a weighted average in which continuous criteria are standardized to a common numeric range, and then combined by means of a weighted average.

Thus, it is becoming increasingly desirable to use continuous criteria to grade the tumor response.

If needed, the continuous criteria used in our package can be replaced by their corresponding discrete counterparts.

These alternate approaches could include the use of race/ethnicity-specific cutoff values for MetS components or development of continuous criteria that add up the degree of abnormality in each of the individual components instead of requiring a person to exceed cutoff values for a set number of components.

Fewer than half of these patients (44.6 %; n = 30,267) met age-eligible (at least 18 years) and benefit-eligible continuous enrollment criteria (at least 12 months prior to index), and only half of patients meeting enrollment and age criteria had evidence of prior use of any other biologic (49 %; n = 14,681).

No continuous enrollment criteria were applied for the study.

These patients were exempted from the continuous enrollment criteria.

The impact of the continuous enrollment criteria on the results is unclear.

Of a total of 175,509 patients in the managed care database who initiated duloxetine treatment between January 1 , 2008and December 31 , 2008 48,280 met the continuous enrollment criteria.

The continuous enrollment criteria was applied to ensure that the most complete immunization history was available, while receipt of polio vaccination was used as an indicator that a child received immunizations that were recorded in the provider group information systems.

Therefore, this study had a continuous enrollment criteria for the "Age 2 and under" group, but only a point-enrollment requirement at age 6 for the "age 6" group.