The phrase "average towards" is not commonly used in written English and may not be considered correct.
It could be used in contexts where one is discussing statistical averages or trends moving in a certain direction, but it is not standard.
Example: "The data seems to average towards a more favorable outcome as the project progresses."
Alternatives: "trend towards" or "move towards".
See articleHappy talkAmerican consumer confidence rebounded in September from August's sharp fall (the news was one element pushing the Dow Jones Industrial Average towards a new high).
However, the k-NN estimates at the pixel level tend to average towards the population mean and to have suppressed variance, since large values are usually underestimated and small values overestimated.
So its like Wisdom of the Crowds, but with a weighted average towards proven winners.
The 2010 data show the same thing - above average early in the year, below average towards the end.
We therefore set our threshold for DE at 50 genes, slightly biasing the average towards that of Cyber-T and limma.
By the oldest decades, participants had surpassed the 'somewhat more active' mark, even on average, and were partway, on average, towards the maximum rating of 'much more active' compared to others their age.
Male courtship effort, averaged towards the two females, was highly and significantly repeatable (the associated F = 11.30, repeatability: r = 0.837, SE = 0.049, 95% confidence interval: 0.713 - 0.911, N = 39 males; Figure 2).
In an investigation of actinomycetes from soil, isolates were on average resistant towards seven to eight antibiotics from a collection of 21 representative antibiotics11.
The results indicated that consumers in the experimental group scored higher on the average attitudes towards functional/enriched foods than did consumers in the control group.
Evolution of fitness score for: (a) single realisation, showing convergence of successive generation's average score towards the maximum; (b) maximal and (c) average fitness values for an ensemble of ten realisations.
The appeal of this sort of clockmaker comedy is the smooth plank it extends over the bubbling hotbed of "what ifs" and "if onlys" that bedevil the average suitor, towards the dream of an endlessly perfectable reality.
