Timeline for Why is it that natural log changes are percentage changes? What is about logs that makes this so?
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| Aug 8, 2022 at 15:29 | history | edited | kjetil b halvorsen♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 9, 2021 at 3:41 | comment | added | Geoffrey Johnson | Is it important to include the error terms and expecation when examining the model coefficients? | |
| Oct 20, 2019 at 0:23 | comment | added | towi_parallelism |
your answer is quite clear: we need small coefficients to be able to interpret the log-difference as percentage change, but @aksakal 's answer shows that we only need small changes (i.e. lim Δx --> 0). Can you please explain how the two are equivalent?
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| Nov 6, 2016 at 3:28 | history | edited | Antoni Parellada | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 5, 2016 at 17:52 | history | edited | Antoni Parellada | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 5, 2016 at 17:38 | history | edited | Antoni Parellada | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 5, 2016 at 17:32 | history | answered | Antoni Parellada | CC BY-SA 3.0 |