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Duncan Cramer; Dennis Howitt

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Dennis Howitt
In:The SAGE Dictionary of Statistics
Chapter DOI:https://doi.org/10.4135/9780857020123.n475
Subject:Anthropology, Business and Management, Communication and Media Studies, Computer Science, Counseling and Psychotherapy, Criminology and Criminal Justice, Economics, Education, Engineering, Geography, Health, History, Marketing, Mathematics, Medicine, Nursing, Political Science and International Relations, Psychology, Social Policy and Public Policy, Science, Social Work, Sociology, Technology

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a measure which shows the relative size of two numbers. It can be expressed as two numbers separated by a colon, as one number divided by another or as the result of that division. For example, the ratio of 12 to 8 can be expressed as 12:8, 12/8 or 1.5.

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