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| | Trend estimation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | When a series of measurements of a process is treated as a time series, trend estimation is the application of statistical techniques to make and justify statements about trends in the data. |
 | | Assuming the underlying process is a physical system that is incompletely understood, one may thereby construct a model, independent of anything known about the physics of the process, to explain the behaviour of the measurement. |
 | | If we consider a concrete example, the global surface temperature record of the past 140 years as presented by the IPCC: [2], then the interannual variation is about 0.2°C and the trend about 0.6°C over 140 years, with 95% confidence limits of 0.2°C (by coincidence, about the same value as the interannual variation). |
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