Timeline for What is the name of figure where the fitted curve becomes the straight center line (figure in description)?
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| Jun 30, 2016 at 15:09 | vote | accept | Phlox Midas | ||
| Jun 29, 2016 at 22:56 | comment | added | Glen_b | Where does this come from? What makes you call it a polynomial? | |
| Jun 29, 2016 at 19:19 | answer | added | xan | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 27, 2016 at 15:44 | comment | added | Nick Cox | On your question, I don't understand the correspondence between your scales. Where does 0-5 come from? Why is the red line as high as any observed value on the right when that's not true on your left? Without knowing how the graphs relate to one another, it is hard to suggest terminology for a mysterious process. | |
| Jun 27, 2016 at 15:40 | comment | added | Phlox Midas | I know. It certainly seems wrong to me. Still, it's a good illustration of the type of figure I'm referring to. | |
| Jun 27, 2016 at 13:26 | comment | added | Nick Cox | The polynomial is alarming. How do it know to be flat for values of the argument less than about 0.4? I doubt you'll get that kind of behaviour without fitting an implausibly high degree of polynomial. | |
| Jun 27, 2016 at 13:04 | history | asked | Phlox Midas | CC BY-SA 3.0 |