The MSSS table essentially ranks individuals from lowest EDSS to highest EDSS for a given disease duration, and expresses this as a decile rank between 0 (least affected) and 10 (most severely affected) [18].
The mapping was accomplished using R's built in "quantile" and "ecdf" functions which essentially rank the value of each point within each distribution, and assign them their correspondingly ranked value in another distribution.
This essentially ranks the scores (with missing/could-not-perform set as the highest rank and missing-at-random left blank) and then inverse-normal transforming the ranks.
The Delta IC50 score used in this analysis essentially ranks the cell lines for their resistance in comparison to the population median (positive scores more resistant than the median, negative scores more sensitive than the median).
Even my palate blanched at young Olivia's plan for an avocado cheesecake: I wasn't sure whether to be heartened or dis- when a previous MC finalist described it as, essentially, rank.
The five schools also essentially rank ordered the factors identically.
An alternative approach to define reference genes is the use of various statistical tests that essentially rank the variability of transcripts abundances for sets of genes that are analysed [ 1].
The resulting free-text profile is essentially a ranked set of free-text terms where the ranking is by calculated term weight.
While LinkedIn made sense of your off-line social graph and how it intersects with friends' social graphs, these new companies are essentially trying to rank your social graph and let you use that information to get ahead.
