Trends are simply the patterns on a graph.
The types of trend are:
- Linear trend
- Nonlinear trend
- Random trend
The linear trend
This is identified in any of the following ways
- An increment in a variable causes an increment in the other variable
- An increment in a variable causes a decrement in the other variable
Any of the two stated above represents a linear trend
Nonlinear trend
This type of trend are in form of curves
When you observe that the pattern on the graph follows a curve, then the trend is nonlinear
Random trend
This simply means no trend or scattered trend.
When there are no visible relationship between the variables of the graph, then the graph has a random trend.
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