Thread: Rate of increase/decrease for a set of values

Rate of increase/decrease for a set of values

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"thara"
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Hello all,
 
I have a table with two columns - one for survey date and the other one for the number of fever cases registered on that date. Now, I would like to know the overall rate of increase/decrease in the fever cases registered in a particular interval (say, between two dates). Which statistical measure I can use for computing this.
 
Thanks all. Have a great day!
Thara.
 


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Re: Rate of increase/decrease for a set of values

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Jasen Betts
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On 2009-07-14, thara <tharas@cdactvm.in> wrote:
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> Hello all,
>
> I have a table with two columns - one for survey date and the other one =
> for the number of fever cases registered on that date. Now, I would like =
> to know the overall rate of increase/decrease in the fever cases =
> registered in a particular interval (say, between two dates). Which =
> statistical measure I can use for computing this.

the difference divided by the time elapsed?



Re: Rate of increase/decrease for a set of values

From
"...tharas"
Date:
Hello,

Thanks Jasen Betts. Did you mean the difference between the maximum and minimum of number of registrations divided by the time interval?  If I got the following number of registrations in a week as

Survey Date    NoOfFeverCaseRegistrations
12/07/09              30
13/07/09              70
14/07/09              20
15/07/09              90
16/07/09              40
17/07/09              50
18/07/09              20


Although the survey does not indicate a steady increase of fever cases during this week, there is a tremendous increase on dates 13/07/09 and 15/07/09. Considering the whole week, I feel I should say there is an unusual increase in number of case registrations. How I can I do this. Can I use any statistical deviation measure for this? Have a great day. Thanks.



On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Jasen Betts <jasen@xnet.co.nz> wrote:
On 2009-07-14, thara <tharas@cdactvm.in> wrote:
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> Hello all,
>
> I have a table with two columns - one for survey date and the other one =
> for the number of fever cases registered on that date. Now, I would like =
> to know the overall rate of increase/decrease in the fever cases =
> registered in a particular interval (say, between two dates). Which =
> statistical measure I can use for computing this.

the difference divided by the time elapsed?



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