Question

Advantages and disadvantages of moving average and least square method of fitting trend

Answer 1

Non-linear least squares provides an alternative to maximum likelihood.

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The disadvantages of this method are:

It is not readily applicable to censored data.

It is generally considered to have less desirable optimality properties than maximum likelihood.

It can be quite sensitive to the choice of starting values.

Answer 2

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