Unlike many earlier environmental assessments that have compiled trends for losses of forests, reefs and other wild places, this one focused on how such losses directly affected human welfare, using as its yardstick trends in "ecosystem services" rather than simply lost species or acreage.
The Akaike information criterion was used to compare different data fits and to compile trend lines into different diagrams.
SEER collects information on cancer incidence, prevalence, and survival from areas representing 28% of the U.S. population and compiles trend data for the entire country.
In the following chart, I have compiled voting trends over time for 13 different age cohorts.
Muller had called Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth a pack of half-truths and had expressed concerns about the quality of temperature data used to compile warming trends.
Given widespread adoption, such guidelines should make it possible to compile AMR trends, highlighting variation between regions and guiding the implementation of focused interventions based on data from what would otherwise be scattered amongst reports.
Mr. Moss is starting a series on risk, and local business journal coverage will be highlighted and compiled for trend pieces, like the status of solar energy in the various states.
In the process of compiling the annual trends report for Havas, the company where I work, I got started thinking about the future of trendspotting itself.
The DVD player's demise is revealed in the annual snapshot of buying trends compiled by the department store group.
As beautiful as the clothes are—and, yes, if you were compiling a spring trend report, pinstripes with palm-print shirts look mighty new they probably aren't going to make you happy.
Homelessness is widespread among low-income families on the Island because of high rents and a lack of rental property, officials say; only 17percentt of properties are rentals, according to the Long Island Index, an annual study of local economic and social trends, compiled for the nonprofit Rauch Foundation.
