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“a negative trend”

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p=0.09

Listed by Hankins (2013) · Otte et al. (2022)

In the literature

At the low and intermediate rainfall ranges, the frequency of rainfall during the rainy season was included in the best models explaining grass cover, yet with opposite effects: grasses show a positive (although noisy) trend with rainfall frequency at the dry end of the gradient, while they show a negative trend with it in mesic TGBs, which is especially evident for the highest rainfall frequencies.
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Also, we found no evidence of a negative trend between size of relative risk for smoking 20 cigarettes per day and last calendar year of follow-up (which might suggest many heavy smokers cutting down, and whether this increases over time): Spearman’s correlations were positive: 0.30 (P=0.15) for men and 0.33 (P=0.20) for women (coronary heart disease studies).