Sentence examples for higher quartiles of the from inspiring English sources

In the first specification, we consider the different quartiles of the same personality trait (effort and external locus of control) as separate treatments, and therefore we compare youths who are, for example, in the bottom quartile of the effort scale with similar youths who are in higher quartiles of the distribution of the same index.

In Table 6, we compare youths who are in the bottom quartile of the effort scale (have very low effort) with youths who have higher levels of effort and youths who are in the bottom quartile of external locus of control with those in higher quartiles of the same index.

In contrast, retrospective analyses of patients after cardiac arrest showed that higher quartiles of the "area under curve of FiO2" were not associated with any effect on gas exchange or lung mechanics during the first 24 h of mechanical ventilation [65].

As shown in Fig.  1, the proportion of women dying from CV disease markedly increased with higher quartiles of the markers, whilst deaths from BC are less frequent with higher quartiles of the markers.

Higher quartiles of the Convenience and Alcohol/Salads patterns were associated with lower cumulative incidence of sepsis, but these associations were not statistically significant (Fig.  1a and e).

Although exclusive breast-feeding up to 6 months was uncommon, a higher rate was found in sub-districts with higher quartiles of the intensity of conflict.

In ordinal logistic regression, odds ratios (OR's) represent the odds of being in a higher quartile of the outcome variable compared to a lower quartile.

The higher quartile of the mRNA expression levels was used as a cutoff point in the present study for Kaplan Meier survival analysis.

Stratification of the sample based on the low and high quartiles of the MMSE did not show significant effects from the intervention in the distinguished groups.

As an example, the reported difference in tolerance for ambiguity corresponds to a difference in mean number of incident PSA tests of 11 per year between GPs scoring in the lowest and highest quartiles of the tolerance for ambiguity scale.

In that study, the proportion of smokers increased in the higher quartiles of FGF23, however, the quantitative effect of smoking on FGF23 was not assessed.