The word has a number of possible meanings:
- In Statistics , a Trend is a long-term movement in Time Series data after other components have been accounted for. It may be described in Hypothesis Testing , where a test has failed to achieve the benchmark for statistical significance, i.e a P-value of less than 0.05) but no more than 0.01. This usage is relatively common in research studies of Psychology , and often indicates the need for replications and future studies using a larger sample size.
- --- In Technical Analysis of financial markets, Trend is the existing general direction of movement of Prices . It is the subject of Trend Estimation
- --- In Behavioral Finance , a Trend is interpreted as a three-step market price upward or downward move due to the reactions of investors as a social group to known information: 1/ underreaction, 2/ adjustment, 3/ overreaction.
- In common language, a trend is another word for Fashion , and is also related to social behavior.
- '' Trends '' are a series of scientific journals of Biology .
- Trend Micro is a Taiwanese Company that develops Software to protect against Computer Virus es.
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