title: [Calculating the mean visual acuity and the change in visual acuity with a decimal acuity chart].
abstract: The decimal visual acuity chart is not easy to use for statistical analysis and requires a transformation into LogMAR units (decimal logarithm of the Minimum Angle Resolution). In contrast to the decimal chart, the logarithmic chart has an arithmetic progression and a constant interval between lines. The LogMAR chart makes statistical analysis of visual acuity easy. Change in visual acuity is calculated directly by subtracting LogMAR data, while the average visual acuity is obtained with the arithmetic mean value of the LogMAR data. The mean acuity expressed in LogMAR units can be transformed into a decimal chart for a more comprehensive result. To calculate the average visual acuity directly from the decimal data, the geometric mean value must be used instead of the arithmetic mean value.
authors.affiliation: Service d'Ophtalmologie, Hôpital St Antoine, 184, rue du Faubourg St Antoine, 75012 Paris.
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Touzeau
mesh_terms: D002138:Calibration; D006801:Humans; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D014787:Vision Tests / Q000379:methods*; D014792:Visual Acuity