In multiple OLS regressions, if you are using power terms to fit for nonlinearity, how do you interpret the coefficients?  For example:  Yi=B1+B2X+B3X^2+Ui and B2 and B3 are both significant.

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In multiple OLS regressions, if you are using power terms to fit for nonlinearity, how do you interpret the coefficients? 

For example: 

Yi=B1+B2X+B3X^2+Ui

and B2 and B3 are both significant.

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