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| Forecasting | The use of statistical techniques - to predict the future |
| Time Series Analysis | A variety of statistical techniques for analyzing and forecasting the observations of a variable measured at equally spaced intervals over time |
| Cyclical Pattern | A trend or cycle in the data points that repeats regularly over time |
| Moving Average | A procedure based on averaging contiguous observations to filter out short-term fluctuations, especially cycles |
| Bivariate Forecasting | A time series in which the independent variable is a real variable rather than time |
| Time Series | A variable measured at regular time intervals |
