French to English translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Management / storage | | French term or phrase: consommation de la période | La méthode des moindres carrés est celle qui permet déterminer, grâce à des formules mathématiques, l’équation linéaire de la droite de tendance ou droite des moindres carrés :
Avec :
N = nombre total de périodes de la série
n = indice de la période
Dn = consommation de la période n |
| | | consumption/consumer spending in period n | Explanation:
From the context, I'd say that D is the dependent variable in this equation/trend. You could go for consumption or, if it is clear from the context, "consumer spending" (which would probably more likely to be the term used if you're using aggregate national accounts data).
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Note added at 33 mins (2010-02-22 09:02:14 GMT)
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Instead of period you could say quarter, year etc. depending on the time period used in in the study.
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Note added at 1 hr (2010-02-22 09:46:38 GMT)
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"consumer/consumers' expenditure" will be closer to national accounts terminology |
| Selected response from:
John Peterson
Local time: 08:56
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31 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +2 consumption/consumer spending in period n
Explanation:
From the context, I'd say that D is the dependent variable in this equation/trend. You could go for consumption or, if it is clear from the context, "consumer spending" (which would probably more likely to be the term used if you're using aggregate national accounts data).
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Note added at 33 mins (2010-02-22 09:02:14 GMT)
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Instead of period you could say quarter, year etc. depending on the time period used in in the study.
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Note added at 1 hr (2010-02-22 09:46:38 GMT)
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"consumer/consumers' expenditure" will be closer to national accounts terminology
| John Peterson
Local time: 08:56
Native speaker of:  English
PRO pts in category: 8
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