expected direction
collocation in Englishmeaningsofexpectedanddirection
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expected
adjective[before noun]
uk/ɪkˈspek.tɪd/us/ɪkˈspek.tɪd/
believed to be going to happen ...
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direction
noun
uk/daɪˈrek.ʃən/us/dɪˈrek.ʃən/
the position towards which someone or something moves ...
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(Definition ofexpectedanddirectionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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To reiterate, the signs on the coefficients are in theexpecteddirection: negative for inflation and positive for unemployment.
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Gender differences were all in theexpecteddirection, and no interactions between gender and cluster emerged.
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Although the correlations were all low, they were all in theexpecteddirection.
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All of the correlations are in theexpecteddirection, but not all are significant.
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In contrast, even after types of social trust are controlled, the effects of types of social involvement are substantial and in theexpecteddirection.
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Characteristics of delinquent parents and bureaucratic capacity also significantly affect child-support collections and the relationships are in theexpecteddirection.
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The measure also appears to have good predictive validity and correlates with a variety of physiological variables in theexpecteddirection.
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For 1988, the model's estimate of 2.8, while not in theexpecteddirection, is one of the smaller, in magnitude, of the presidential year estimates.
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In the case of extraversion, however, the correlations were low but in theexpecteddirectionand with reasonably good internal consistency.
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In both national and sectional models, contagion coefficients in these states are almost never statistically significant; and they are never in theexpecteddirection.
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Examination of the model path coefficients indicated all paths were significant and in theexpecteddirection.
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However, this difference was not in theexpecteddirection, indicating an inferior instead of a superior naming - reading relationship for semantically identical stimuli.
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Yet only in a minority of cases did the results run 100% in theexpecteddirection.
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The test scores varied in theexpecteddirectionwith years of schooling.
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Unemployment, while still in theexpecteddirection, now fails to achieve statistical significance.
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In all decades, the magnitude of the coefficient is larger than any other coefficient, and it moves in theexpecteddirection(negative).
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During the post-neonatal and child periods, the effect of education is in theexpecteddirection, although it is only statistically significant for the latter period.
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The contribution of each is in theexpecteddirection.
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