Sentence examples for trend indicator from inspiring English sources

Black Friday (better known as the day after Thanksgiving and named after its propensity to put stores' balance sheets in the black) used to serve as the leading trend indicator of consumer holiday spending.

"GameMine recognizes the distinct value and importance of South Africa's thriving mobile carrier market as an appropriate demographic region for our company's product, as well as an early trend indicator for the African continent's entire mobile industry," said Daniel Starr, GameMine's chief executive in a statement.

That number is relatively unimportant, though, except as a trend indicator.

Mark Rucker may not have set out to be a trend indicator, but he's living proof that the times have changed in the American theater.

We used risk scores calculated on a daily basis from an existing time-dependent survival model for hospital mortality to create several trend indicator variables.

We then used the methods of Sauerbrei and Royston [ 9] to identify the best second-degree fractional polynomial transformation for each trend indicator in the joint model and removed any trend indicators that were no longer significant at α = 0.05.

We expressed all of the trend indicators as continuous variables, using a positive or negative number to indicate an increasing or decreasing risk score, respectively.

Having spoken to a bunch of economists about this, I've found that the official figures are useful as trend indicators but not as hard numbers.

The focus of this study is on the key trend indicators that are defining the current landscape of design, and its changing role in business and society.

These early signs are true trend indicators, and they promise to pave a critical path to widespread commercial participation and acceptance as legalization continues to spread and the industry matures.

However, the predictions from the model that incorporated trend indicators were not noticeably better.