Example sentences for: cutpoints

How can you use “cutpoints” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • As these categories were defined arbitrarily, additional cutpoints were examined.

  • Some investigators are now recommending that lower PSA cutpoints should be used as an indication for prostate biopsy [ 37 38 39 ] . Catalona and colleagues detected cancer in 22% of men biopsied with PSA levels between 2.6 to 4 ng/ml [ 37 ] and Lodding and colleagues detected cancers in 13% of men with PSA values between 3 to 4 ng/ml [ 39 ] . We found that lowering the cutpoint to 2 ng/ml, while greatly increasing sensitivity, led to an 80% false positive rate.

  • Cytoband cutpoints were used to create a scatterplot with the center of the cytoband forming the x -coordinate, and assembly position as the y -coordinate.

  • We found that PSA testing discriminated equally well for Hispanics and non-Hispanic whites and that PSA cutpoints do not need to be adjusted for Hispanics.

  • We chose these cutpoints to separate the high signals and undetectable signals from the mid-range signals.


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