%0 Journal Article %T Mathematics of Predicting Growth %A Ron W Nielsen %J Quantitative Finance %D 2015 %I arXiv %X Mathematical methods of analysis of data and of predicting growth are discussed. The starting point is the analysis of the growth rates, which can be expressed as a function of time or as a function of the size of the growing entity. Application of these methods is illustrated using the world economic growth but they can be applied to any other type of growth. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1510.06337v1