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Relative Deviation
Message posted by Liz on September 13, 2000 at 12:00 AM (ET)

We have recently dealt with a company utilizing the term "relative deviation". (Note: Not to be confused with relative standard deviation). The relative deviation, as they have explained to me is ((B1-B2/B1+B2)X 100). Has anyone ever used this term to define the deviation between two values? Any help would be appreciated


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Re: Relative Deviation
Message posted by JG on September 13, 2000 at 12:00 AM (ET)

We are talking about normalizing
a difference as a percentage, like
normalizing of covariance as a correlation coefficient.
There are probably many ways of doing this.



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