The phrase "a pattern that describes" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a specific model or framework that illustrates or explains a particular phenomenon or behavior.
Example: "The research identified a pattern that describes the relationship between temperature and plant growth."
Alternatives: "a model that illustrates" or "a framework that explains".
Factor analysis reduces dietary data to a few composite factors (one being a healthy dietary pattern) that describe the eating pattern in the population.
This technique thus differs from pattern search techniques (as used in [ 37] for homeobox sequences) where a sequence either matches or not a given pattern that describes qualitatively a motif.
Thus, the pattern that describes how photosynthetic capacity is associated with soil moisture gradient might be complex, rather than the simple linear relationship only from a few drought treatments.
The ones on the left conform to a pattern, or rule that describes them, and the task of the problem-solver is to find this pattern, or rule.
Datasets used for estimating mixture models consist of binary patterns that describe the occurrence of a set of genetic events in a group of patients.
Dietary patterns that described themselves as using a 'Mediterranean' dietary pattern.
One way to define relevant relations for a certain domain or textual genre, as well as identifying patterns that describe such relations, is through data analysis.
Urban geography could be characterized by analysing the patterns that describe the flows of people and goods.
The further analysis of the mesoscopic features of this network puts into evidence the organization patterns that describe the connectivity of users in large online social network.
By defining a natural order by means of the geometrical center of gravity of the k points, we extract k patterns that describe the distance to the center of gravity and type of the spatial feature k ∈ F.
