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nombre total de périodes de la série

English translation: period of time


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11:08 Feb 21, 2010
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French term or phrase: nombre total de périodes de la série
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
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English translation:period of time
Explanation:
Total number of time periods within the respective data series - probably consumption data in your case.

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4 +3period of time
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4total number of periods/data points in the seriesrkillings


  

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period of time


Explanation:
Total number of time periods within the respective data series - probably consumption data in your case.



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agree  John Peterson: Though I'd suggest using the term "time periods" in your explanation as the answer
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agree  John Detre
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agree  Chantal Tougas: Agree with John Peterson
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total number of periods/data points in the series


Explanation:
In this case, each period is a data point (whereas the 'study period' would be the entire length of the time series). Usually each data point would be called "time n" in English. You could consider dropping the 'period' vocabulary in translation: it makes sense only because consumption is a flow and can be measured only over an interval of time, but it could be confused with the period of the time series (as opposed to the periodicity of observation).

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Feb 21, 2010 - Changes made by Stéphanie Soudais:
Field (specific)Management => Mathematics & Statistics


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