Re: Modelling data with cyclical patterns?

hp wrote:

Your answers will help policy planners in a life-or-death sort of
way, so thanks in advance.

If this is so, then perhaps your employers should be looking for direct advice from a more experienced
statistician: someone with a background in this particular field and someone who is actually able to see/look at
the data. If one of your state universities doesn't have someone, then you might well be able to find a good
person through the American Statistical Association.

David Jones


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