by 68Camaro » Sat Sep 24, 2011 10:01 am
Not sure you could do what you say without distorting the data Barry. I guess I should read the article (don't have time this morning), but I presume that in the above the red lines have been scaled vertically to match cost, which I don't have an issue with as long as it was done linearly. I'm not sure I even have an issue with scaling the time axis as well, as long as they weren't a factor of 10 off.
I'll just say that for me, while the degree of comparison depends on what you consider satisfactory, the above is "enough" of a satisfactory match to me to suggest that there might be similar factors at work in each, and I look at analysis/test data comparison plots for a living (in part). So it would make me ask - are those same factors (fundamentals) at play in each case? And my answer would be yes. And so I would consider the likelihood of the black line continuing to follow the red as "strong".
To each their own, I guess.
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