The athlete was not in court for Friday's ruling where the court handed down the minimum 15-year sentence prescribed for murder in South Africa, and subtracted the years Pistorius had already served.
Subtracting the year you were born (and adding the number 1 if you had your birthday already this year) will produce your favorite number followed by your age.
The age of the plant, or its duration of operation in years, can be computed by subtracting the year of issue of its commercial operating license from the current year.
Reported time between household TB contact and enrolment was calculated by subtracting the year of reported contact from the year of enrolment.
Multivariable linear regression was used to assess the associations between fibrinogen or CRP and change in lung function from the year 5 to the year 20 examination (determined by subtracting the year 20 FEV1 or FVC measurement from the year 5 measurement).
We assigned a 'rejection intensity index' of 1, 2, 3 or 4, to the categorical proportion estimates of rejection rate and subtracted the year of first publication from the survey date to obtain the number of years since first publication, a surrogate for scientific age.
It was obtained by subtracting the year of birth from 2007.
The variable 'year of PMQ' was converted into 'number of years since qualification' by subtracting the year of PMQ from 2013.
Duration of diabetes was estimated by subtracting the year of diagnosis from the date of attendance at the research clinic.
Years since licensure was calculated by subtracting the year of licensure, which was obtained from the provincial medical regulatory authority, from the year of the syndrome-positive visit.
To reduce the amount of identifying information stored, we did not record participants' day or month of birth, so 'age' was estimated by subtracting the year of birth from 2011, the year the study took place.
