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Is there a function in excel to help find trends in large amounts of data?
Jun 27 '11 #1
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Stewart Ross
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The main tool available in Excel in looking for trends is the trend line facility associated with charts. For any data series plotted on a chart you can fit a linear, logarithmic or polynomial regression line to the data, and show the correlation co-efficient to see how 'good a fit' the trend line is. For polynomial fits, I find that second and third order polynomials are the most suitable for modelling non-linear trends in real-life data.

You can also show the line equation on the chart. For a linear regression line the slope value tells you on average how fast the data is changing (growing or declining) per unit of time plotted on the x-axis. For non-linear trends the interpretation of the trend equation is more complex than this, but it is still useful to know.

-Stewart
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