The phrase "a function of the pattern" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are discussing how something is determined or influenced by a specific pattern or arrangement.
Example: "The success of the project is a function of the pattern of collaboration among team members."
Alternatives: "dependent on the pattern" or "determined by the pattern."
Analysis of disease-free survival of patients identified by these clusters revealed clinically-significant distinctions as a function of the pattern.
In some cases scientists prefer to consider sample size as a function of the pattern of mean differences.
Finally, it is possible that performance will vary across different diseases, perhaps as a function of the pattern of cone degeneration.
While evidence to date suggests that number of chronic conditions is important, there may be an additional layer of importance related to falls as a function of the pattern of chronic conditions across individuals.
The precise position and height of the peak as well as the pattern of progression toward it will be a function of the temporal pattern of change in the birth and death rates of elements.
In addition, since the complexity of a time-series is defined by its corresponding workload pattern, the theoretical analysis concludes that the accuracy of a regression model is a function of the workload pattern (see Theoretical investigation of the hypothesis section).
The intensity and extent of these processes is, however, also a function of the spatial pattern of soils (erodibility), which evolved in the progressive period.
For retailers, radio programmers and music industry observers, there is no clear answer to the question of whether "American Idol" has lost its ability to mint big stars, or whether these sliding numbers are simply a function of the larger pattern of declining album sales as consumers shift from buying CDs to downloading single songs.
An analytical expression for calculating this steady state velocity was presented as a function of the gait pattern parameters.
SFR is measured as a function of the chart pattern frequency of the line width per picture height (LW/PH) and indicates that the limiting resolution of UVI is 650 LW/PH with an SFR of 5%.
Rather, the likelihood of a phylogenetic tree is also a function of the nested pattern of similarities in the data.
