CV2se function

Helper functions

Calculates the standard error or the mean squared error from a given CV and vice versa for log-normal data.

CV2se(CV)
se2CV(se)
CV2mse(CV)
mse2CV(mse)

Arguments

• CV: coefficient of variatio as ratio (not percent)
• se: standard error
• mse: mean squared error (aka residual variance)

Returns

Returns

se = sqrt(log(CV^2+1))

CV = sqrt(exp(se^2)-1)

mse = log(CV^2+1)

CV = sqrt(exp(mse)-1)

Note

These functions were originally intended for internal use only but may be useful for others.

Author(s)

D. Labes

Examples

# these functions are one liners:
CV2se <- function(CV) return(sqrt(log(1.0 + CV^2)))
se2CV <- function(se) return(sqrt(exp(se^2)-1))

CV2se(0.3)
# should give:
# [1] 0.2935604 

se2CV(0.2935604)
# [1] 0.3