The body's absorption rate for retinol is going to follow
an exponential decline curve; since it is going to be proportional to remaining storage.
Not exact matches
One merely calculates the least - squares linear - regression trend over successively longer periods to see whether the slope of the trend progressively increases (as it must if the
curve is genuinely
exponential) or whether, instead, it progressively
declines towards linearity (as it actually does).
Monckton — quoted by Bickmore «One merely calculates the least - squares linear - regression trend over successively longer periods to see whether the slope of the trend progressively increases (as it must if the
curve is genuinely
exponential) or whether, instead, it progressively
declines towards linearity (as it actually does).»
The differences, which, in an
exponential curve, would of course increase successively, in fact mostly
decline successively: 11, 10, 8, 6, 3, 4, 4, -1, and 4 ppmv / century respectively.