Exponential growth is always exponential, not just if it suddenly starts to drastically increase in the arbitrarily choosen view scale.
A simple way, to check wether data is exponential, is to visualize it in loc-scale, and if it shows there a linear behavior, it has a exponential relation.
Exponential growth means, that the values change by a constant ratio, contrary to linear growth where the data changes by a constant rate.
Exponential growth is always exponential, not just if it suddenly starts to drastically increase in the arbitrarily choosen view scale.
A simple way, to check wether data is exponential, is to visualize it in loc-scale, and if it shows there a linear behavior, it has a exponential relation.
Exponential growth means, that the values change by a constant ratio, contrary to linear growth where the data changes by a constant rate.