Usually the expression is employed in the context of the relationship between a dependent variable and another variable. The latter may or may not be independent: often it is time but that is not necessary. In some cases there is some indication that that there is a linear relationship between the two variables and that relationship is referred to as a trend.
Note that a trend is not the same as causation. There may appear to be a strong linear trend between two variables but the variables may not be directly related at all: they may both be related to a third variable. Also, the absence of linear trends does not imply that the variables are unrelated: there may be non-linear relationships.
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The direction in which the trend analysis points.
One example of a 'Trend' would be; In a Graph if there is a point in the graph where you start to see a pattern, its sort of like a trend. But usually you have to explain it, you would have to understand all of the data to know what the actual trend is.
Dose is a measured portion of a medicine. Therefore a dose trend means the pattern of dosage of medication over a period of time.
"Trend" is something like tendency, and "upward" means that something is increasing. There is a general tendency that whatever is being considered, increases over time.
A trend is like a pattern except not as precise