Word: medians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Patients with sickle-cell anemia are living longer because of more aggressive treatment. Their life expectancy has risen from a median age of 14 in 1973 to 42 for men and 48 for women. Scientists have identified several risk factors, which may lead to new and better treatments...
...think on the whole they grouped pretty much around the median," Kleeman says. "We had the extremes represented but on the whole I think we were pretty much a centrist group...
According to an alumni survey of the Harvard class, 84 percent are married and only 19 percent have ever been married more than once. The median anniversary year of those still married is the 44th, and one tenth of the class members are celebrating their 50th anniversaries this year. Five percent more are celebrating more than 50 years of marriage...
...addition to the average letter grade, Council members also discussed the possibility of printing a numerical grade average, a median grade or a histogram showing the grade distribution for the course...
Carpal tunnel a painful disorder which can leadto permanent impairment of the hand and which cancost as much as $30,000 per case to treat,according to the Federal Centers for DiseaseControl's National Institutes for OccupationalSafety and Health (NIOSH). The disorder is causedby increased pressure on the median nerve, whichserves the hands, as it runs within the "tunnel"formed by the carpal bones in the wrist...