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Glossary entry

German term or phrase:

Hilfswert

English translation:

coefficient

Added to glossary by Gunther Wolf
Dec 13, 2000 13:43
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German term

Hilfswert

Non-PRO German to English Tech/Engineering
context: mathematical (statistics - calculation of the arithmetic mean)

"Für die numerische Berechnung ist es häufig einfacher, anstatt mit xi (Bezeichnung der Einzelwerte) mit

yi = (xi - a) c

zu rechnen, wobei a und c frei zu wählende Hilfswerte, a vorzugsweise in der Nähe des zu schätzenden Mittelwertes, darstellen.

(Note: in these formulas the i's should be italicized and subscripted, and a and c should be italicized)
Proposed translations (English)
0 coefficient
0 variable

Proposed translations

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coefficient


According to DeVries Technical Engineering Dictionary


HTH
Reference:

DeVries Tech. Dic.

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variable

you can call it a "variable".
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