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Title: Percentage error
Post by: BLACKCATT on April 29, 2013, 07:43:59 pm

How would you interpret percentage error?

Title: Re: Percentage error
Post by: Planck's constant on April 29, 2013, 11:37:25 pm

If your query is in relation to residuals in data analysis, then the percentage error is,

(residual / actual y value)  x 100

The percentage error can be positive or negative.

There are other contexts for percentage error, however.