document.write( "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 \n" ); document.write( "
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Interpolation is making a prediction within the data set.
\n" ); document.write( "Extrapolation is predicting outside the data set eg in the future.\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Interpolation tends to be more accurate. Extrapolation relies on the conditions remaining the same which may or may not be an accurate assumption.
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