Sentence examples for continuous durations from inspiring English sources

8In principle, when discrete durations represent underlying latent continuous durations, the discrete observed durations should follow a c-log-log distribution; see Høgelund et al. (2010).

In this model, transitions to the treatment and to regular employment are represented by two random latent continuous durations, T r and T e, with t r and t e denoting their realizations.

A sufficiently long continuous duration of favourable conditions, particularly the availability of water and nutrients, is necessary for the mould growth on the surface of a building component.

Therefore, considering continuous duration of favourable conditions as a basic characteristic for mould growth assessment, its occurrence in time is represented by a stochastic process.

Diary days that were either without any reported headache or with a reported headache of <4 h continuous duration were defined as headache-free days.

The duration of each social sniffing was defined as the continuous duration of such action that lasted at least for 0.27 sec.

The duration of each approaching was defined as the continuous duration of such action that lasted at least for 2.0 sec.

We used Cox proportional hazards models to estimate risk and simultaneously adjust for age (continuous), duration of cigarette smoking (continuous), cigarette dose (continuous), and intervention assignment.

As a result, multivariable analyses included age (years), height (continuous), current cigarette smoker (y/n), duration of cigarette smoking (years), number of cigarettes smoked daily (continuous), duration of oral contraceptives use (years), and parity (continuous) as confounders.

Analyses for nulliparous women were adjusted for BMI at study entry (continuous), duration of use of OC (never or <1/1 9/⩾10 years), duration of use of HT (never/<10/⩾10 years), first degree family history of breast and/or ovarian cancer (no/yes/missing).

Missing continuous infusion durations (for two occasions in the model development dataset) were assumed to be 16 h, per protocol.