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Tech/Engineering - Mathematics & Statistics / Statistics | | English term or phrase: cummulative variance or accumulated variance? | This is a term I am translating from Portuguese into English. Statistics. The problem is: which term should I choose?
A Google search numerically favors "accumulated variance" (more hits) but when one looks at the servers where the info is stored, most are non-native English. Hmmmm, suspicious. On the other hand, "cummulative variance" sounds more technical to me but produces much fewer hits; true, they are few but high quality (should I say reliable?). Places like Harvard.
This is related to principal components analysis (stats).
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| | | cumulative variance | Explanation:
is the right option - without a shadow of a doubt - it is a standard term in statistics and probability theory. your instincts serve you well (and also highlight why a search engine hit list can often not be trusted as a definitive source of objective truths!)
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in fact, you\'ve just given a is a great example of what I would call \"cumulative deviance\"!!! One mistranslation appears on a foreign website and it multiplies onto a host of other sites and before we know it, it seems to be an accepted and widely used term, when in reality it is just bad English mistranslated by a non-native speaker....
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