Sentence examples for directional trend from inspiring English sources

The standard deviational ellipse measures whether a distribution of features exhibits a directional trend (whether features are farther from a specified point in one direction than in another direction).

A possible directional trend between species was depicted as arrows in the figure.

For nine of the ten colored dinucleotides, the coefficient in the other two areas primarily shows the common directional trend.

But regardless of their long-term viability as a fringe pantomime, those meme creators are at the vanguard of a broad directional trend, and seem to be exploiting it with some measure of success.

In July the animals begin to move irregularly southward and spend the winter in the taiga, or northern forests, through which they wander freely with no general directional trend.

Anyway, it varies without any directional trend.

Much speculation exists among evolutionary biologists on whether or not evolution follows predictable, directional trends.

A once-popular hypothesized evolutionary mechanism was orthogenesis, in which change in organisms was due not to natural selection, but to internal directional trends within a lineage.

However, extreme annual and shorter-term variability of rainfall, primary production, vegetation, and populations of grazers make directional trends and causal chains hard to establish in these ecosystems.

Archaean directional trends in kimberlite distribution are recognised on craton, whereas Proterozoic and Carboniferous Permian (Karoo) age trends are recognised both on and off the Archaean craton.

Slurry video analyses provided spray angle directional trends so that a subset of the domain could be simulated to save computational time.