"confirm the direction" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to denote the act of verifying or validating a particular course of action or decision. Example: The management team met to discuss the new business strategies and make a decision on the company's future direction. Before finalizing their plans, they decided to confirm the direction with a market research study to ensure their choices were backed by data.
Analysts look for the action in the Dow Jones Transportation Average to confirm the direction of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
To confirm the direction of solar flare induced current over the EEJ region, in Fig. 19 are plotted portions of H and Z magnetograms at a low latitude station TND in the south.
"We would need to perform an experimental study to confirm the direction of the association". Still, the results showed that reading self-help books did not correlate with qualities like self-discipline, emotional stability and self-esteem.
The TMS results did not confirm the direction of influence as suggested by the effective connectivity analysis.
We cannot confirm the direction of the relationship between change in behaviour and day occupation.
However, because of the cross-sectional natural of our data, we cannot confirm the direction of these associations.
The percentage signal change was averaged over those voxels for each of the eight experimental conditions separately, and further analysed with four-way repeated measures ANOVA (including the additional variable, task sequence order) in order simply to confirm the directions of particular effects following the whole-brain analyses.
Some designs (later superseded) for the restoration and improvement of Old St . Pauls Cathedral also date from this period, and in 1610 Jones was given an appointment that confirmed the direction of his future career.
Based on the analysis of function requirement models of previous products and the application of technology system evolution laws of the Theory of Innovative Problem Solving (TRIZ), the customer requirements could be evolved from existing product designs, through modifying the functional requirement unit and confirming the direction of evolution design.
In this study, five probes were identified with consistent fold-change values by quantitative RT-PCR that confirmed the direction of expression revealed by the microarray and three of the genes had almost identical fold change estimates.
For CLF2, a similar analysis indicated a 2-fold mean difference in protein level in Figure 4F with all 8 cell lines from Figure 4E F confirming the direction of regulation (higher in control).
