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

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(at)xnet(dot)co(dot)nz> wrote:

> On 2009-07-14, thara <tharas(at)cdactvm(dot)in> wrote:
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> > 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
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> > 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.
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> the difference divided by the time elapsed?
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.thara s pillai