Statistics Notes: What is a percentage difference?
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Statistics Notes: Percentage differences, symmetry, and natural logarithms.
Despite its wide use in statistics, the logarithmic transformation can make non-statisticians uncomfortable. This is a shame because logarithms have very useful properties, including a secret not widely known even among statisticians. The two familiar forms of logarithm are common logs, to base 10, and natural logs, to base e. Here we focus on natural logs (or “ln” for short), which have the fo...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0959-8138,1756-1833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.j3663