If You Suspect That a Nonlinear Trend Exists in Your

question 20

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If you suspect that a nonlinear trend exists in your data, one way to deal with it in a trend-based forecasting application is to transform the independent variable, for example by squaring the time measure or maybe taking the square-root of the time measure.

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