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testing for a correlation between a real number and percentage accuracy
No real data are ever normally distributed. Statistical model assumptions are idealised thought constructs. Note that for just computing correlations you don't necessarily need a test (and neither ...
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minimum total N (value for denominator) when calculating a percentage
As mentioned in the other answer, it depends on the context, and it would be probably non-trivial to review all possible situations. Note that there is another thread directly related to your question,...
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Is it problematic to use percentages to describe a sample with less than 100 people?
It depends on the situation and how you communicate it.
The short answer is: Yes, it is problematic, and you should not do this.
I am coming from an applied perspective; most of my career has been ...
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Is it problematic to use percentages to describe a sample with less than 100 people?
Percentage is just a simple way to express a number
Percent, %, is just a number expressed as a fraction (or ratio) with the denominator being one hundred. It derives from Latin 'per hundred'. We also ...
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Is it problematic to use percentages to describe a sample with less than 100 people?
The percentage (or proportion) is the maximum likelihood estimator for the true percentage (or proportion) for a binomial distribution*. That does not really change with the sample size. However, on ...
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Is it problematic to use percentages to describe a sample with less than 100 people?
If you want to be really technical about it, I suppose you can consider the "percent" operator to be a correspondence (not a function) that maps the decimal value to all possible pairs of ...
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