Sentence examples for true trends from inspiring English sources
More years of data collection are necessary before true trends can be detected to assess the overall impact of this initiative.
As a result, trends in the index over time can reflect variation in detection probability rather than true trends in abundance.
While historically this may not have been true, trends over time suggest that it might become so in future.
However, SSTI incidence changes observed were relatively modest and likely represented year to year fluctuations rather than true trends observed between the late 1990s and 2005 in other populations [ 1, 2, 5].
However, if the use patterns are moving in opposite directions (i.e., chlorpyrifos use is decreasing, but chlorpyrifos methyl use is increasing), true trends in exposure to one of the chemicals may be masked.
API and SPR are not independent and may be expected to show similar trends given adequate quality of surveillance; thus, analysis of both indices allows detection of true trends and surveillance quality.
The sampling design also assumed at least five repetitions in order to detect a minimum 30% change in population size over time with 75% statistical power to detect a true trend, and 10% probability of falsely detecting a trend when the population is stable (TRENDS: [75]).
Fed officials have long argued that core inflation is a more meaningful measure of the true trend in inflation.
Hollar describes these results as "cautiously exciting" and warns that the sample size is small and that a true trend cannot be determined for at least five years.
On July 26, Lt. Gen. Raymond T. Odierno, the second-ranking American commander in Iraq, said that the lower death toll was a "positive sign" but that it was too early to say whether the reduction was a "true trend".
