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Trend Surface uses polynomial regression to show large scale trends and patterns in the data. This method is not an exact interpolator since it will not honor the data exactly. To fit a polynomial to the data the only parameter required is the order of the polynomial. The order can be a first order polynomial representing a simple planar surface to fifth order polynomial representing a quintic surface.