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Taking logarithms in statistical data

Excerpt from Data Analysis for Politics and Policy, pages 108-134.
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-- Edward Tufte


Found a typo on page 108, did not find an errata for this book.

Remembering logarithms section. One of the examples is incorrect.

log102000 = 3.30103, because 103.30103 = 200.

should be:

log102000 = 3.30103, because 103.30103 = 2000.

-- Peter Lauterbach (email)