Trend polynomials


Posted by Richard Little on January 08, 2002 1:46 AM

How do you use the trend function on data in a table to obtain a 2nd order polynomial fit (without plotting a chart and using 'add trendline')?



Posted by Richard Little on January 08, 2002 4:25 AM

I've now got the answer:

TREND(B1:B20,A1:A20^{1,2})

The part of the formula reading ^{1,2} raises the A-column values to the powers of 1 and of 2.