Re: large negative error: error is increasing or decreasing?
- From: hfrarg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (I R A Darth Aggie)
- Date: 6 Oct 2005 20:36:26 GMT
On 4 Oct 2005 23:09:45 -0700,
acout@xxxxxxx <acout@xxxxxxx>, in
<1128492585.026322.200150@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>+ Say x changes from 0 to -10.
>+ In math, x is decreasing. But if x means error, the error should be
>+ increasing but not decreasing.
>+ How should I decribe it?
>+ (1) the error is decreasing ? (I don't like it, it's misleading.)
>+ (2) the error is increasing ?
Most times, one would interested purely in the magnitude of the error,
the absolute value.
Then it becomes a simple increase/decrease evaulation.
James
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