Sentence examples for trailing indicator from inspiring English sources
"It's a kind of trailing indicator of who's suffering in this economy".
"Housing is a trailing indicator of economic conditions," Mr. Miller said.
The problem, Dr. McCarthy said, is that house prices are a trailing indicator, not a leading indicator.
So far, there is little sign of rising unemployment – admittedly a trailing indicator – which might fuel fears of social unrest.
A final possibility is that data is sometimes a trailing indicator: We may feel something before the numbers prove it.
They're a trailing indicator, right?
The results show that improved safety practices and improved profitability in industry is possible when one understands the mathematical cause and effect relationship between incidents (trailing indicators) and program interventions (inspections, training, safety meetings, and the like) designed to prevent them (leading indicators).
"The conclusion that comes to my mind is these report cards are trailing indicators of what's happening in the Arctic," Spinrad said.
People newly diagnosed with HIV can be expected to survive longer than those recruited to cohorts between 1996 and 2010, therefore, studies such as ours necessarily provide trailing indicators of mortality rates.
Historically a downward-sloping (or inverted) yield curve has been a widely trailed indicator of recession on the horizon.
Maybe it was the lack of obtrusive boundary warnings or glaring trail indicators in the vast swath of snow below.
