Sentence examples for the forth quartile from inspiring English sources
A 1% reduction in the number of reads used to sequence the highest expressing genes in the forth quartile can be used to triple the coverage of the lowest expressing genes when reads are applied within the set.
The odds of having metabolic syndrome rose in the second to the forth quartile of time spent on moderate to vigorous physical activity compared with the most active quartile.
In multivariable logistic regression analyses that adjusted for age and sex, circulating GLP-1 levels in the forth quartile were significantly associated with higher odds ratios (OR) of having MetS (Table 3).
Similarly, the mean of WHR in the lowest quartile of Δ-cortisol in women was significantly higher than in the other three quartiles in the age-adjusted model, however, in the multivariate model the increase was only statistically significant in comparison with the second and the forth quartile (Table 4).
The optimal cut-off point for the depression subscales of HADS in community-dwelling Chinese elderly is 6 [ 49]; therefore, the lowest two quartiles (<5) were grouped as the first class, and the third quartile (5 6) and forth quartile (≥7) were re-classified as 2 and 3, respectively.
Patients with colonic cancer were very significantly less likely to receive any treatment if they came from any but the most affluent area (ORs 0.639, 0.603 and 0.544 in increasingly deprived quartiles), this may have been exacerbated if the hospital was distant from their residence (OR for forth quartile for both travel and deprivation 0.731, not significant).
One may study all four quartiles simultaneously, or alternatively, one can study first and forth quartile separately.
The relapse-free survival clearly differs between the first and forth quartiles.
An upper/lower threshold defined by l th = Q2 − 1.5(Q4- Q2) and u th = Q4 + 1.5(Q4 − Q2) respectively, when Q2 and Q4 represent the second and forth quartiles, were specified to detect and modify the extreme outliers.
The forth area is the educational one.
