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Noun: deciban
  1. A unit of information, one tenth of a ban.
    "The deciban is a particularly useful unit for log-odds, notably as a measure of information in Bayes factors, odds ratios (ratio of odds, so log is difference of log-odds), or weights of evidence."

Type of: unit, unit of measurement

Part of: ban, dit, Hart, hartley

Encyclopedia: Deciban