But you wouldn't expect that trend to be a totally smooth and linear one, because it's what they call a multivariate trend.    From Wordnik.com.  [OpEdNews - Diary: George Monbiot Puts "Climate Gate" in Perspective] Reference

A more advance version of these tests are known as multivariate testing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Muti] Reference

To makes sense of it all, expertise in an area called multivariate analytics is required.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference

Xn are jointly normal (aka multivariate normal) if all their linear combinations are normally distributed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

They then analyzed the overall spatial pattern of activity in the auditory cortex by using a method called multivariate pattern analysis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Signs of the Times] Reference

This index takes a home's size, type, location and other characteristics into account using a complex technique known as multivariate linear regression analysis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Understanding The Case-Shiller Housing Index] Reference

Strong analytical skills including familiarity with statistical techniques such as multivariate regression.    From Wordnik.com.  [CFO.com: Today in Finance] Reference

If "multivariate" is a "big word there wow" to you, then I hate to break it you - you aren't running "hard math" on your machines.    From Wordnik.com.  [Discover Blogs] Reference

They include regression algorithms such as multivariate polynomial regression, MARS, Locally Weighted Regression, GMDH and neural nets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deeplinking] Reference

"multivariate" testing ensures its customers are optimizing the return on investment (ROI) from their Web sites.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference

It also uses multivariate linear regression analysis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Understanding The Case-Shiller Housing Index] Reference

Anybody know a good text in English on multivariate analysis?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-09-01] Reference

Anyone who knows the least bit about multivariate analysis knows that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seven Short Posts Regarding Larry Summers, Civility, and Censorship] Reference

Writers love dualities, and dialectics, not complex multivariate systems.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Bike, It's Full of Stars! Every Material, Every Color, All the Time] Reference

In multivariate models there may be more than one such cointegrating vector.    From Wordnik.com.  [Energy quality] Reference

A multivariate version with Tim Bollerslev and Jeff Wooldridge generalized the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert F. Engle III - Autobiography] Reference

S.eed, 1982, ˜S.ructural analysis of multivariate data: A review™, in S. Leinhardt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hans Reichenbach] Reference

A multivariate analysis of health-related practices: a nine-year mortality follow-up of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [T.S. Wiley: Dying for a Good Night's Sleep] Reference

Long, tangled sentences, heavy with terms like "multivariate analyses," are assembled to make small points.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Insurance? That’s a Killer.] Reference

The extension of ARCH models from univariate processes to multivariate processes began in the early 1980's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert F. Engle III - Autobiography] Reference

Perhaps of more concern is that tree ring data reflect a nonlinear response to multivariate climate forcings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bunn et al. [2005] – 20th century tree growth in the Sierra Nevadas « Climate Audit] Reference

Crucial steps include development of multivariate spectral data analysis algorithms and a finger sampling device.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trp Descriptions Development] Reference

Why this would be so gets a little technical and we would need to get into multivariate statistics of high dimension.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Dubious Grousing over the Percentage of African-American Players in Major League Baseball] Reference

Since I have been in New York, my work has actually moved back to volatility models, but in large multivariate systems.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert F. Engle III - Autobiography] Reference

Post 8 7 skippedphantomworker wrote: You may have described a multivariate, multidimensional spectrum view of sexuality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Today's Battle] Reference

I'm not sure how decidable the "most specific method wins" thing can be with complex multivariate type predicates, though.    From Wordnik.com.  [Snell-Pym » 2008 » April] Reference

Age-adjusted and multivariate relative risks were estimated by Cox regression analysis with age as the underlying time metric.    From Wordnik.com.  [Will being a few pounds overweight kill you?] Reference

The goal is to simplify multivariate systems into a small number of variables that endow the system with its typical features.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert F. Engle III - Autobiography] Reference

Human impacts on woody vegetation and multivariate analysis: a case study based on data from Khowarib settlement, Kunene Region.    From Wordnik.com.  [Namibian savanna woodlands] Reference

Most of these studies use advance multivariate statistical methods, which allows the authors to control for these other factors.    From Wordnik.com.  [The US’s Poor Performance In Infant Mortality Is Not A Measurement Error] Reference

Nothing says, "We're all in this together," like shared suffering under the brutal lash of a multivariate differential equation.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Why should a school even bother with something like a 'Think Campaign' or a 'bias reporting mechanism'?"] Reference

Human impacts on woody vegetation, and multivariate analysis: a case study based on data from Khowarib settlement, Kunene Region.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kaokoveld desert] Reference

There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast, interwoven, interacting, multivariate, multinational dominion of currencies.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Interview with George Orwell & Paddy Chayefsky: Part 1 - Jaffer Ali - MediaBizBloggers] Reference

Though many have masked it with lots of "inverse distribution of multivariate indices" blah blah blah, that's the heart of this thing.    From Wordnik.com.  [beyond power laws - Anil Dash] Reference

The study used "multivariate pattern recognition" to identify oxygen flow in the brain that occurs in association with specific thoughts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tapping Brains for Future Crimes] Reference

Evidence for biochemical heterogeneity in schizophrenia: a multivariate study of monoaminergic indices in human post-mortem brain tissue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arvid Carlsson - Autobiography] Reference

While rigorous mathematical deduction would be preferable, such analysis is inapplicable to the multivariate problems faced in that field.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bell curves] Reference