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Polynomial analysis is an extension of simple linear regression, where a model is used to allow for the existence of a systematic dependence of the dependent y variable (blood pressure) on the independent x variable (time) different from a linear dependence.
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Cleophas, T.J., Zwinderman, A.H. (2012). Curvilinear Regression. In: Statistics Applied to Clinical Studies. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2863-9_16
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