FORECAST

Name

FORECAST —
FORECAST(x,known_y's,known_x's)

Description

FORECAST function estimates a future value according to existing values using simple linear regression. The estimated future value is a y-value for a given x-value (@x).

If @known_x or @known_y contains no data entries or different number of data entries, FORECAST returns #N/A! error. If the variance of the @known_x is zero, FORECAST returns #DIV/0 error.

See also

INTERCEPT , TREND