 Percentage point (source code)

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= Percentage point
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A <percentage point> is one hundredth on a <probability> or proportion scale. A change from $20\%$ to $25\%$ is $5$ <percentage points>, while the relative increase is $(25-20)/20=25\%$. These answer different questions and have different denominators.

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