Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Static analysis, static projection, and static scoring are pejorative terms for statistical analyses for which existing trends are projected into the future simplistically, or beyond what is possible to predict in any manner, producing results often wildly unrealistic. Its opposite, dynamic analysis or dynamic scoring, is an attempt to take into account how variables may change or interact. One common use of these terms is budget policy in the United States, although it also occurs in many other statistical disputes.