(n.) One who does not live where his office, or business, or estate, is.
(n.) That which lies, or is, away from the main body.
(n.) A part of a rock or stratum lying without, or beyond, the main body, from which it has been separated by denudation.
Example Sentences:
(1) No outliers were found when data were analyzed by the Dixon, Grubbs, double Grubbs, and Cochran tests.
(2) Lofgren complains that " the crackpot outliers of two decades ago have become the vital centre today ".
(3) We need to know whether using different methods to reject outliers leads to different results in the analysis of the data.
(4) Bias is controlled by the use of least-squares curve fitting for all assays, and constraints on the elimination of outlier points.
(5) Statistical treatment of results revealed no laboratory outliers and 6 individual or replicate-total outliers, accounting for 3.3% of the data.
(6) Patients with a greater number of complicating conditions (CCs) had higher total hospital costs, a longer hospital length of stay, more procedures per patient, increasing financial risk under DRGs, a larger number of outliers, and a higher mortality than did patients in these same DRGs with a fewer number of CCs.
(7) Distribution analysis of CBF change images (outlier detection by gamma-2 statistic) was assessed as an omnibus test for state-dependent changes in regional neuronal activity.
(8) Banks, who made his money selling insurance and sees himself, like Nigel Farage, as an ex-public school iconoclast of the “liberal establishment”, is no longer just some rightwing outlier.
(9) In both cases, the data should be checked for outliers or rogue observations and these should be eliminated if the testing procedure fails to imply that they are an integral part of the data.
(10) For the second show in the Guardian’s 10-week radio series on NTS, Alexis talked to the Guide’s Kate Hutchinson about glam’s early innovators, forgotten outliers and its modern descendants: T Rex to David Bowie and Iron Virgin to Perfume Genius.
(11) Of the firms analysed, Standard Chartered was found to be an outlier with 33% minority presence in this top 100 – the so-called pipeline – which the report said might be explained by its operations in Asia and the Middle East.
(12) Three measures of performance were studied: frequency of outliers greater than 3 standard deviations from the sample mean, the coefficient of variation (CV) of sample measurements, and the difference of the sample mean from the spike value.
(13) We found very low levels (less than 3 percent of normal levels) or no dystrophin in the severe Duchenne phenotype (35 of 38 patients), low concentrations of dystrophin in the intermediate (outlier) phenotype (4 of 7), and dystrophin of abnormal molecular weight in the mild Becker phenotype (12 of 18).
(14) Effective prophylactic measures increase profitability by preventing complications and minimizing the proportion of outliers due to increased length of stay.
(15) A BASIC program is described which, upon the input of raw data from an experiment comparing several treatment groups to a control, will output group parameters (mean, SEM), test for outliers in each group (maximum normalized residual test), and examine the homogeneity of variance (Bartlett's test).
(16) Most hospital outliers have fewer deaths or morbid cases than expected.
(17) Newborns with "extreme immaturity" (DRG 386) and "prematurity with major problems" (DRG 387) together accounted for less than 3% of all newborn discharges but for nearly one fourth of all outlier discharges.
(18) The direct linear plot was comparatively resistant to outlier observations; however, only when outliers were substantial did the method become superior to nonlinear least squares.
(19) Under current DRG reimbursement rates, the cost of care for rheumatology patients would be adequately reimbursed in our hospital: losses from outliers would be offset by net revenues from inliers as long as current Medicare adjustments for capital and medical education costs were continued.
(20) His latest book is Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust That Society Needs to Thrive.
Pattern
Definition:
(n.) Anything proposed for imitation; an archetype; an exemplar; that which is to be, or is worthy to be, copied or imitated; as, a pattern of a machine.
(n.) A part showing the figure or quality of the whole; a specimen; a sample; an example; an instance.
(n.) Stuff sufficient for a garment; as, a dress pattern.
(n.) Figure or style of decoration; design; as, wall paper of a beautiful pattern.
(n.) Something made after a model; a copy.
(n.) Anything cut or formed to serve as a guide to cutting or forming objects; as, a dressmaker's pattern.
(n.) A full-sized model around which a mold of sand is made, to receive the melted metal. It is usually made of wood and in several parts, so as to be removed from the mold without injuring it.
(v. t.) To make or design (anything) by, from, or after, something that serves as a pattern; to copy; to model; to imitate.
(v. t.) To serve as an example for; also, to parallel.
Example Sentences:
(1) The patterns observed were: clusters of granules related to the cell membrane; positive staining localized to portions of the cell membrane, and, less commonly, the whole cell circumference.
(2) This paper discusses the typical echocardiographic patterns of a variety of important conditions concerning the mitral valve, the left ventricle, the interatrial and interventricular septum as well as the influence of respiration on the performance of echocardiograms.
(3) A change in the pattern of care of children with IDDM, led to a pronounced decrease in hospital use by this patient group.
(4) These eight large plasmids had indistinguishable EcoRI restriction patterns.
(5) Participants (n=165) entering a week-long outpatient education program completed a protocol measuring self-care patterns, glycosylated hemoglobin levels, and emotional well-being.
(6) The pattern of the stressor that causes a change in the pitch can be often identified only tentatively, if there is no additional information.
(7) The nuclear origin of the Ha antigen was confirmed by the speckled nuclear immunofluorescence staining pattern given by purified antibody to Ha obtained from a specific immune precipitate.
(8) The subcellular distribution of sialyltransferase and its product of action, sialic acid, was investigated in the undifferentiated cells of the rat intestinal crypts and compared with the pattern observed in the differentiated cells present in the surface epithelium.
(9) The histological pattern of tumor was identified in 28 cases.
(10) We evaluated the circadian pattern of gastric acidity by prolonged intraluminal pHmetry in 15 "responder" and 10 "nonresponder" duodenal ulcer patients after nocturnal administration of placebo, ranitidine, and famotidine.
(11) In the presence of insulin, a qualitatively similar pattern of increasing responses to albumin is observed; the enhancement of each response by insulin is, however, only slightly potentiated by higher albumin concentrations.
(12) It was the purpose of the present study to describe the normal pattern of the growth sites of the nasal septum according to age and sex by histological and microradiographical examination of human autopsy material.
(13) Together these observations suggest that cytotactin is an endogenous cell surface modulatory protein and provide a possible mechanism whereby cytotactin may contribute to pattern formation during development, regeneration, tumorigenesis, and wound healing.
(14) The significance of the differences in these two patterns of actin is discussed in terms of differences in the accommodative ability and static lens shape in these two animals.
(15) Chromatographic maps of DNA adducts demonstrated unique patterns of DNA adducts for each of the regions.
(16) A triphasic pattern was evident for the neck moments including a small phase which represented a seating of the headform on the nodding blocks of the uppermost ATD neck segment, and two larger phases of opposite polarity which represented the motion of the head relative to the trunk during the first 350 ms after impact.
(17) In the upper limb and facial forms of familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy first recorded in Swiss and Finns respectively, the differences in their patterns of neurological disease and ocular lesions could be the result of their amyloids deriving from proteins other than prealbumin.
(18) A murine keratinocyte cell line that is resistant to the growth-inhibitory effects of transforming growth factor beta 1 (TGF beta 1) was examined for differential gene expression patterns that may be related to the mechanism of the loss of TGF beta 1 responsiveness.
(19) The pattern and intensity were followed up for up to 15 days.
(20) LH and FSH levels in the group which were given low dose progesterone only, rose consistently after BSO and these patterns were similar to those seen in the control group.