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Question 62227: What are the names of the processes of calculating a value "within" the range of data and "outside" the range of data?? Thanks for your help...I am helping my son and am lost on this question. Robyn
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Interpolation is making a prediction within the data set.
Extrapolation is predicting outside the data set eg in the future.
Interpolation tends to be more accurate. Extrapolation relies on the conditions remaining the same which may or may not be an accurate assumption.