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Percentage error
« on: April 29, 2013, 07:43:59 pm »
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How would you interpret percentage error?
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Re: Percentage error
« Reply #1 on: April 29, 2013, 11:37:25 pm »
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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.
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