Relative error distributions, without the heavy tail theatrics

Win-Vector Blog 2016-09-26

Summary:

Nina Zumel prepared an excellent article on the consequences of working with relative error distributed quantities (such as wealth, income, sales, and many more) called “Living in A Lognormal World.” The article emphasizes that if you are dealing with such quantities you are already seeing effects of relative error distributions (so it isn’t an exotic … Continue reading Relative error distributions, without the heavy tail theatrics

Link:

http://www.win-vector.com/blog/2016/09/relative-error-distributions-without-the-heavy-tail-theatrics/

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Statistics and Visualization » Win-Vector Blog

Tags:

expository writing

Authors:

John Mount

Date tagged:

09/26/2016, 16:42

Date published:

09/19/2016, 20:18