Plot all the polls that have been conducted in Michigan over the past two weeks, draw a trend line through them and it points to a steady decline for him: On the other hand, the most recent poll of the state from the American Research Group showed Mr. Santorum holding on to a four-point lead there.
I've looked in the past at Japanese growth between the early 90s and 2007, and found something disconcerting: if you assume that the economy was at more or less full employment at either end, and draw a trend line in between, it doesn't look as if the economy was ever very depressed — which is at odds with all the anecdotal evidence, not to mention the slide into deflation.
Because of the volatility of Fed funds, an instrument of Federal Reserve Board policy, I hesitated to draw a trend line, but it approximates 300 basis points.
(See "The Mighty Euro" and "Europe Winces As $1.50 Breached").. "You can draw a trend line that moves up just below $1.50, with the break below you incline technical traders to go from long to short," Dolan said.
"If you draw a trend line from the data, it's pretty flat from the 1990s," he says.
With variable model estimation, we drew a trend line for each health-related indicator by using a logarithmic or linear approximation with six time points referencing 1996, 1999, 2002, 2005, 2008, and 2011.
After looking at price and volume patterns and drawing a few trend lines on his Bloomberg terminal, he says of the Dow: "This thing is going to 13,000 and in a hurry!" Of course, it's always harder to sell bearishness.
Considering strippers are a time-tested, scientifically-proven way of drawing a crowd, the trend of hiring some to dance at your funeral is getting increasingly popular in Taiwan. .
Such study of temperature distributions along vertical cross sections located in different directions may enable us to draw a generic trend of temperature distribution for the entire valley.
With fewer than seven polls available, our standard practice is to draw a linear trend line (or, in plain English, a straight line) through the data points.
