Re: Jargon translation needed!

On Mon, 12 May 2008 00:37:18 -0700 (PDT), "Philip P. Hart"
<auldphart@xxxxxxx> wrote:

In a recent blog:
http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2008/05/selective_data_and_global_warm.php#more
the jargon term "periodic trending(sic)" is used. Does anyone have a
more mainstream or standard expression for this?

That's not a real piece of jargon. It is the author's attempt
to be descriptive, and he follows it with the detail of
what he means. He is not the one to blame -- he is
reporting on someone else's bogus analysis.

In the mainstream - folks look for trends, and they look
for cycles. The blogger introduces "chaos" unnecessarily,
and does not do it well. As the first response says, "noise"
is the simpler term.

--
Rich Ulrich

http://www.pitt.edu/~wpilib/index.html
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