Sentence examples for instead of the means from inspiring English sources

He wanted the foundation to have a powerful sense of urgency, and for that reason he insisted that it had to spend the money it took in, rather than building up a large endowment, which often becomes the end instead of the means.

In case of the PA-PFA, the number of factors was reduced to 11, when the observed eigenvalues were compared with the 95th percentiles instead of the means of the eigenvalues generated from random data.

The Kruskal-Wallis test compares the medians instead of the means; therefore, we report the medians and interquartile ranges instead of the means and standard deviations for these variables.

Median values of ventilatory parameters (VT, respiratory rate, peak pressure, etc) from each patient were selected, instead of the means, for calculating the subgroups averages to minimize errors of extreme values from spontaneous ventilation or rapid intraoperative adjustments.

The phenomenon of job polarisation is also robust to the use of the median instead of the mean.

Some stylized questions (e.g., How many hours per week do you usually work?) might capture the mode, instead of the mean, of work time.

To do so, they proposed the use of the median instead of the mean as a better performance metric because it is more robust to outliers.

We collect statistical data for 149 routes and choose the median instead of the mean as a descriptor of the data because the distribution is quite skewed.

The DSIHE method also used a similar approach to enhance the image contrast, except applying the median value instead of the mean value.

The k-medians algorithm uses the median instead of the mean as the centre of the derived clusters and is therefore better in dealing with outliers in the data.

For a coaxial heat exchanger this paper develops an analytical model for the vertical temperature profiles, which can be used instead of the mean temperature approximation to estimate borehole resistance.