Weather Banter - View Single Post - large negative error: error is increasing or decreasing?

I R A Darth Aggie · October 6th 05, 09:36 PM posted to sci.geo.meteorology

On 4 Oct 2005 23:09:45 -0700,
, in
.com 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.

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