The phrase "followed a linear pattern" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It means that something progressed in a straight line or in a predictable way. Example: "The stock market's performance over the past decade followed a linear pattern, steadily increasing year after year."
On the other hand, the distributions of the 16 items between 'Some' and 'Most' followed a linear pattern when plotted using a log-normal scale.
Inspection revealed 81% of the aligned sequences followed a linear pattern of macrosyntenic alignment with consistent coverage of M. truncatula hits across most of the T. repens genome.
The log-linear relationship between the hazard rate and the quantitative independent variables was ascertained by categorizing the quantitative variables in similar range groups to check if the coefficients for these categories followed a linear pattern [ 35].
Interestingly, in two polygenomic breast cancers, subpopulations with increasing genomic complexity followed a linear pattern geographically in the tumor [ 7] and in one of the two tumors, a subclonal KRAS amplification was identified.
Relationships, least of all with ourselves, seldom follow a linear pattern.
It has been assumed that these changes follow a linear pattern when serum creatinine concentration is converted to estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR).
The public tramway system, however, remains the principal structuring device of the urban form where development still follows a linear pattern along the valley connecting Sarajevo and Ilidža.
First, in a general way, the growth of the two types of coverage follow a linear pattern on average, mainly for Swing.
The different positions did not follow a linear pattern over time, but overlapped each other depending on the various local contexts.
It is apparent from the Table 4 that accelerated stability data follows a linear pattern throughout the stability testing.
It must be noted the emergence of concepts and sub concepts was non-linear as our data revealed teamwork did not follow a linear pattern.
