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Originally Posted by MDLNB
Like I said my info came from the CDC website. But, your information also supports what I said. One week in Aug is not a trend.
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You are correct that one week of data does not establish a statistically significant trend.
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Basic Regression Analysis
ec 10, 2010 · If you calculate trends over a short period you don’t get statistically significant trends, and over a longer period you do get statistically significant trends. This is true for almost any real life data, and how long it takes for trend to show up over short term non-trended variation will depend on the data.