The phrase "a linear decreasing" is not correct as it is incomplete and lacks a noun to modify.
You can use it in contexts where you are describing a linear decrease, but it should be followed by a noun, such as "function" or "trend."
Example: "The graph illustrates a linear decreasing trend over the specified time period."
Alternatives: "a linear decline" or "a linear decrease."
In addition, the sediment concentration exhibited a linear decreasing relationship with the area under land use/cover treatment.
In Figure 4b, n-Al2O3 suspensions exhibited a linear decreasing trend of energetic release because of the displacement of reactive ethanol.
Takahashi et al. (2007), Tembe et al. (2010), and Moore and Lockner (2011) also reported a linear decreasing trend of frictional strength up to a certain amount of clay minerals, and a drop from the linear trend for larger amounts of clay minerals.
As shown in Eq. 7, the decrement in θ occurring after PD onset is a linear decreasing function across switching points with a group-specific decrement parameter κ g > 0 as the slope so that, for the last decline class, the decrement is κ g.2 Note that Jin and Wang (2014) modeled θ and δ to be independent of one another.
There was a linear decreasing trend observed between the proportion of women who had less than high school education and age at first sex (Ptrend<0.001).
It also permitted a shorter exploration time than a linear decreasing approach where more time would be spent on refining solution (exploiting).
For c a linear decrease in V e is expected, whereas the linearity is lost when c >c′.
We also report a linear decrease in the photoconductivity with temperature for T in the range 295-330 K. 295-330 K
Individual non-linear regression showed that a non-linear model fit the data best in 128 subjects (64%), while 44 (22%) had a linear decrease and 24 (14%) did not exhibit significant variation of BP.
