On 11 Jan 2002 07:46:20 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dennis Roberts) wrote: > definition: proportionate = equal % change > > IF we agree on this ... and maybe we don't ... then, since the % change is > always UN =, then all changes are DISproportionate [ ... ]
Are you sure you *advocate* that? I am not positive, but I think I would have objected to "equal % change" as =proportionate= by the time I finished algebra in high school. I know I have objected to similar confusion, on principled grounds, since I learned about Odds Ratios. I suspect that the original sample was small enough that the apparent difference in ORs was not impressive. -- RIch Ulrich, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pitt.edu/~wpilib/index.html ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =================================================================
