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English translation: seed


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06:55 May 16, 2011
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Business/Commerce (general) / study
English term or phrase: seed
We also specified a particular random number seed so
that we could replicate the imputed data sets in the
future.
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English translation:seed
Explanation:
It's an appropriate statistics term - I found a wikipedia page all about it, and it's indeed to do with how you select random numbers. A bit hard to explain so giving the link.
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Liz Broomfield
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seed


Explanation:
It's an appropriate statistics term - I found a wikipedia page all about it, and it's indeed to do with how you select random numbers. A bit hard to explain so giving the link.


    Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudorandom_number_generator
Liz Broomfield
United Kingdom
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agree  Ambrose Li: I would call it a computer science term, but yes, this is what it means and this is really the only way to phrase it
7 mins
  -> I could only find it in reference to stats and computer science, but you're right of course as it needs a computer to perform it!
agree  Thayenga: With Ambrose Li. :)
49 mins
  -> Thanks!
agree  William [Bill] Gray: This link is also useful: http://www.randombots.com/random_control.htm
1 hr
  -> That's a good one!
agree  Phong Le
4 hrs
  -> Thank you!
agree  Thuy-PTT
20 hrs
  -> Thanks!
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