Could someone please help to explain this requirement? My thoughts are that maybe the tool does not use the absolute value for the variance between data points? I am trying to look at hot/cold spots in trend data (% change per year) which does have negatives. I could add a positive value to the input field to get positive values (i.e. add the minimum negative value to all data points) however I'm not sure how this would affect my results. Any suggestions?
