Sentence examples for prior to summing from inspiring English sources

The authors checked the reliability of their Likert item sets prior to summing them for analysis.

Prior to summing, all items were reverse scored such that a higher score corresponds to better HRQOL.

These average values were rounded to the nearest whole number to give the question weights prior to summing to produce the weighted scores.

We also computed node strength (the weighted node degree) by weighting each projection with its strength prior to summing up the present projections.

Rank-based Blom transformation [ 36] was applied to standardize all measures by transforming them into standard normally distributed surrogates prior to sum score computation.

The change in creatinine from pre-enrollment to enrollment (usually a 24-hour interval), total vancomycin dose received prior to trough (sum of the first three doses), use of a loading dose, dosing interval, and estimated GFR (eGFR) were also assessed.

For sex ratio data, the five replicates of each level of relatedness within each pedigree in each block were pooled prior to analysis by summing the number of adult offspring of each sex.

Genes with multiple transcripts in the microarray were summed prior to ratio comparison.

The total number of high fat/calorie food items and low fat/calorie food items eaten in the 24 h period prior to the experiment was summed.

Dirichlet (1,1,1,1,1) priors are placed on the indirect probabilities constraining them to sum to 1, to be <1, and to be non-zero.

Prior to performing the NMDS, we summed the sample data per species (per site) and standardized the data with 'decostand' function with method = 'total' in vegan.