Extrapolation
What Extrapolation means in Mathematics GCSE, as defined for AQA, Eduqas, Pearson Edexcel.
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Reference: AQA
Predicting outside the plotted data range, which is risky because the apparent trend may not continue.
Estimating a value outside the range of the given data points using a line of best fit.
Estimating a value outside the range of the given data points on a scatter graph.
Topics that use Extrapolation
- Statistics (AQA GCSE)
- Statistics (Eduqas GCSE)
- Statistics (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Continuous Data
- Frequency density
- Outlier
- box plot
- Cumulative frequency graph
- Discrete Data
- Histogram
- scatter graphs
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