Jan 8, 2010 14:15
14 yrs ago
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English term

Mutually Exclusive and Collectively Exhaustive (MECE)

English to Arabic Bus/Financial Business/Commerce (general)
NOTE to MEDIATOR: this is NOT a multiple term question. this is actually a SINGLE business term. please see the links at the bottom as reference.


"The framework should be both Mutually Exclusive and Collectively Exhaustive (MECE) to ensure there are no overlaps or gaps that might impact the clarity of the reporting."


http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/Mutually Exclusive and...

http://www.google.com.ly/search?hl=en&safe=off&rlz=1C1CHMA_e...

Discussion

Lingua Quality Jan 8, 2010:
mutually exclusive Dear Mr. Yahya,

Thanks for your kind words, however, the term here need to be modified a little bit to cope with the context, because I believe the provided part speaks about running business processes from a statistical point of view. In my translation I just used a different style from yours to describe the "framework", and here the definition of "collectively exhaustive" which does not contradict my translation: "In probability theory, a set of events is jointly or collectively exhaustive if at least one of the events must occur", which means to happen or definitely reach a result.

Proposed translations

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1 hr

لا يجمع بين احتمالين ويؤدي إلى نتيجة

المصطلح يشير إلى إحدى قواعد علم الإحصاء، ويمكن تقسيمه إلى جزئين:
1- mutually exclusive: يعني وجود احتمالين لا يمكن الجمع بينهما (مثل رمي العملة المعدنية وظهور أحد وجهيها فقط).
2- collectively exhaustive: يعني وجود عدة احتمالات ولكن أحدها سيحدث بالتأكيد (عند رمي حجر النرد سيؤدي إلى استقراره على أحد أوجهه الستة).
Peer comment(s):

agree Radwan Rahman
1 hr
Thanks Mr. Radwan
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5 hrs

غير متقاطعين واتحادهم يغطى جميع الاحتمالات

I agree, and commend, linguaquality for the given explanations. There is a subtlety to the second term (collectively exhaustive) it means that (in the case of the dice example) the collection or set of {1,2,3,4,5,6} give in their "total" the whole "Sample Space" or in layman terms the whole possible combinations. So it's not that "one of them" would happen (which could be true for {1,2,3} it's that "none outside them" would happen.


Please see winning answer in the attached link.
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