Sympercents: Symmetric percentage differences on the 100 log(e) scale simplify the presentation of log transformed data

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 22, 2000, Pages 3109-3125

  Cole, T J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; BIOMETRY; BODY HEIGHT; BONE DENSITY; CELIAC DISEASE; CROHN DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 0034736411     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-0258(20001130)19:22<3109::AID-SIM558>3.0.CO;2-F     Document Type: Article

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