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

On 2009-07-14, thara <tharas@cdactvm.in> wrote:
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> Hello all,
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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 =
> 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?