Sentence examples for comparisons of trends from inspiring English sources

Drawing comparisons of trends in inflation, employment and growth could be tricky, even, Mr. Berner said, for periods as short as five years.

In Montclair, where there is a concerted emphasis on thinking of the town as one diverse whole — children are bused to "magnet" schools, and the moniker "Upper" is discouraged as divisive — several agents resisted comparisons of trends on the two sides of town.

This year was chosen for practical reasons and to increase the likelihood that surveys would provide figures over the same time period that would allow comparisons of trends, as most surveys were of relatively recent date.

By taking into account the four-year time elapsing between sweeps, national data present in two or more datasets was deemed sufficient for substantive comparisons of trends in victimisation concentration over time.

Between- and within-country comparisons of trends in the prevalence of the metabolic syndrome may incorrectly attribute birth order effects to environmental factors.

The same applies to international comparisons of trends in determinants and trends in life expectancy.

Both parallelism and coincident comparisons of trend lines were rejected.

Comparisons of trend across time were made using repeated measures analysis of variances.

However, comparison of trends in the 20th Century Reanalysis with daily gridded observations from E-OBS81 since 1950 shows potential bias in the reanalysis.

(On his Web site, Saez recently posted a useful synopsis of his and Piketty's findings. A detailed cross-country comparison of trends in top incomes can be found here).

A comparison of trends in reference and non-reference watersheds indicated that trend magnitudes in non-reference watersheds were significantly larger than those in reference watersheds.