As at Compstat meetings, the idea will be for the superintendents to compare trends and share strategies.
We hope to make a great collective resource where we'll be able to compare trends from different countries.
Retailers will also be able to compare trends over time, which, for example, could be used to monitor the efficacy of a particular marketing campaign.
The survey, like the barometer, is produced as a conventional paper version and a soon-to-be-released interactive website that allows the public and government officials to compare trends of citizen perceptions over time.
While the study did not compare trends in smoking among people with mental illness over time, Dr. Frieden and Douglas Tipperman, lead public health adviser on tobacco prevention for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, cited indications that smoking rates for this population have not declined nearly as quickly as smoking in the general population.
Gary Burtless, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, notes the vulnerability in the Saez and Piketty data: "The two economists are trying to compare trends in inequality over a very long time span and in a number of different countries, and they've done a good job of that.
We calculate the two indices in Beijing and Shenzhen for a month and compare trends of different indices.
As a result, it provides a means to compare trends in prospective plantation investment returns over the seven years.
Another feature YouTube power users will appreciate is the service's new-found ability to compare trends and patterns across two different metrics.
Since there are far more Android devices than iPhone models, it's not as fair to compare trends on a device-by-device basis.
Numerous approaches have been applied to estimate the level of transformation of ecosystems and to compare trends inside and outside of protected areas.
