To make a trend analysis of six evenly spaced data points,
Chapter 6, Problem 4E(choose chapter or problem)
To make a trend analysis of six evenly spaced data points, one can use orthogonal polynomials with respect to evaluation at the points and 5.a. Show that the first three orthogonal polynomials are (The polynomial p2 has been scaled so that its values at the evaluation points are small integers.)b. Fit a quadratic trend function to the data
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