The phrase "a pattern of means" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a systematic approach or method involving various resources or methods to achieve a specific outcome.
Example: "The researchers identified a pattern of means that effectively addressed the issue of climate change."
Alternatives: "a method of resources" or "a system of approaches".
First the model and its parameters should be consistent with the rate of clonal death observed in T. thermophila and second those estimated values of U and s should provide a pattern of mean fitness decline and fitness variance across bottlenecks similar to that observed in the experiment.
All this will be put into a database so that we will know what a pattern of proteins means in terms of disease severity and prognosis.
Today's indictment charged Mr. Bulger and Mr. Flemmi with a pattern of violence meant to protect their criminal dealings.
Our G × E analysis supported this, indicating a pattern of different mean phenotypic responses among genotypes to different environments.
Supporting morphological observations, we found evidence of a pattern of increasing mean evolutionary rate in genes that are expressed in subsequent stages of development.
The coding equipment translates the postal code into a pattern of dots by means of which machines can sort mail at eight times the speed of manual sorting.
But this indictment is symptomatic of the problem that is endemic throughout the Bush regime: ideologically driven intolerance for differences of opinion, a willingness to make the facts fit the case, and a pattern of justifying the means by the ends, however much they may be at odds with the truth.
The two most suitable covariates for rainfall interpolation were identified as (i) distance in wind direction from the main orographic barrier and as (ii) a 0.05° pattern of mean annual rainfall derived from satellite data acquired by the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM).
In the per-protocol analysis, a similar pattern of mean reduction in CFU count during treatment and at EOT was observed in the ciprofloxacin DPI group compared with the placebo group (p<0.001) (fig. 2b).
For each group, we calculated per cell species richness relative to the richest cell for that group in order to derive a synthetic pattern of mean diversity ranging from zero to one, with one representing the cell with highest species richness for that group, and zero representing cells with no species present.
