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English translation: standardised


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French term or phrase:standardisés / standardisées
English translation:standardised
Entered by: Conor McAuley
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10:56 Jan 4, 2010
French to English translations [PRO]
Mathematics & Statistics / Variables used in a business model equation
French term or phrase: standardisée / standardisées
"CR_Ventes : La croissance des ventes entre t et t+1 standardisée par les ventes de l’année t."

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"Toutes les variables des modèles CT [court terme] et LT [long terme] à l’exception de la variable CR_Ventes sont standardisées par la moyenne du total des actifs MTA"
Conor McAuley
France
Local time: 20:44
standardised or controlled
Explanation:
Standardisation is a statistical method for controlling for confounding factors.

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Note added at 31 mins (2010-01-04 11:27:57 GMT)
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http://www.statsoft.com/textbook/statistics-glossary/s/

Standardization.While in the everyday language, the term "standardization" means converting to a common standard or making something conform to a standard (i.e., its meaning is similar to the term normalization in data analysis), in statistics, this term has a very specific meaning and refers to the transformation of data by subtracting each value from some reference value (typically a sample mean) and diving it by the standard deviation (typically a sample SD). This important transformation will bring all values (regardless of their distributions and original units of measurement) to compatible units from a distribution with a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1.

This transformation has a wide variety of applications because it makes the distributions of values easy to compare across variables and/or subsets. If applied to the input data, standardization also makes the results of a variety of statistical techniques entirely independent of the ranges of values or the units of measurements (see the discussion of these issues in Elementary Concepts, Basic Statistics, Multiple Regression, Factor Analysis, and others).


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Note added at 36 mins (2010-01-04 11:32:53 GMT)
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Sorry, this is probably blinding you with science lol
http://www.statlit.org/Standardizing.htm
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SJLD
Local time: 20:44
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Thanks to SJLD and everybody.
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Summary of answers provided
4 +2standardised or controlled
SJLD
4 +1standardized or customizedetienne muylle i wallace
4measured/plotted against
Dr.P.Marteinson
2compared to
Mark Nathan


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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
standardized or customized


Explanation:
seems too easy to be true

etienne muylle i wallace
Spain
Local time: 19:44
Native speaker of: Native in DutchDutch, Native in FrenchFrench

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  bohy: Exactly, too easy to be true. Customized is obviously wrong.
12 mins
agree  1045: Forget 'customized'. I agree with 'standardized' ... with 'z' ...
4 hrs
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26 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
standardised or controlled


Explanation:
Standardisation is a statistical method for controlling for confounding factors.

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Note added at 31 mins (2010-01-04 11:27:57 GMT)
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http://www.statsoft.com/textbook/statistics-glossary/s/

Standardization.While in the everyday language, the term "standardization" means converting to a common standard or making something conform to a standard (i.e., its meaning is similar to the term normalization in data analysis), in statistics, this term has a very specific meaning and refers to the transformation of data by subtracting each value from some reference value (typically a sample mean) and diving it by the standard deviation (typically a sample SD). This important transformation will bring all values (regardless of their distributions and original units of measurement) to compatible units from a distribution with a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1.

This transformation has a wide variety of applications because it makes the distributions of values easy to compare across variables and/or subsets. If applied to the input data, standardization also makes the results of a variety of statistical techniques entirely independent of the ranges of values or the units of measurements (see the discussion of these issues in Elementary Concepts, Basic Statistics, Multiple Regression, Factor Analysis, and others).


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Sorry, this is probably blinding you with science lol
http://www.statlit.org/Standardizing.htm

SJLD
Local time: 20:44
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 48
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Thanks to SJLD and everybody.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Trinh Do
1 hr
  -> thanks cobber ;-)
agree  philgoddard
9 hrs
  -> thanks Phil :-)
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13 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5
compared to


Explanation:
I think it might be as simple as that.

Standardizing or normalizing results is a procedure used in statistics to present the distribution of a set of results in relation to the mean, but I would not have thought that that was appropriate in this context.

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Note added at 3 hrs (2010-01-04 14:15:52 GMT)
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Having googled your source text I realize that it is not this simple. They are using statistical analysis to compare data from different companies, so I would go for "standardized".

Mark Nathan
Local time: 20:44
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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measured/plotted against


Explanation:
.

Dr.P.Marteinson
Canada
Local time: 14:44
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  SJLD: sorry, but how can plotting a variable against another be considered as "standardisé" in French? Can you explain? I've taught stats at uni level but I can't quite grasp this :-)
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