The phrase "shape of the trend" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used to describe the overall pattern or direction of a trend. Example sentence: The shape of the trend in the stock market indicates a steady increase in prices over the past year.
The shape of the trend line through the blossom flowering dates resembles a hockey stick — with a flat handle but sharply sloping blade.
For the modified Williams-type tests, the power can be estimated depending on the magnitude and shape of the trend, the number of dose groups, and the magnitude of the MN counts in the negative control.
And as an epidemiologist I'm stimulated by changing the shape of the trend line to make sure as bad things are going up we can slow them down and bring them back down sooner.
A quadratic term was added to test for a nonlinear shape of the trend.
We first applied fractional polynomial models to identify the shape of the trend.
18 The shape of the trend in baseline respiratory mortality in England and Wales since 2000/2001 is unclear.
The indirect effects of TIV were slightly lower than the VEIndirect observed for LAIV regardless of transmission intensity, but the shape of the trends was qualitatively similar.
Censoring all CVD as a cause of death from the overall mortality resulted in an increase in the remaining LE at the age of 60 for men as well as women and for all calendar years, but had no impact on the shape of the trends, the curves still showed a similar shift.
To better understand the shape of these trends and the permutations for different segments of the marketplace, it is helpful to look carefully at Boomer and Silent consumers and their everyday strategies for living healthy, staying active and being well.
Silver and McCann showed that the level of accuracy depends on gender and on the shape of the popularity trend.
Other secondary questions will also have to be addressed in future research including: What is the shape of the mean trend in deinstitutionalization over time?
