outlier
French translation: (dans ce contexte) personne ayant un comportement tout à fait hors norme
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| 5 | ...d’avoir un comportement tout à fait hors norme |
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| 3 | étranger à |
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| 3 | une observation aberrante |
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| 3 -1 | un novice dans la matière |
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étranger à Explanation: Dans le contexte, je crois qu'il s'agit de ceux qui sont "étrangers" au secteur autoroutier. Ce qui expliquerait la surévaluation. Pas sûr quand même. Peut-être les raisons données plus loin par le Winner's Curse peuvent-elles t'éclairer. |
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...d’avoir un comportement tout à fait hors norme Explanation: ou d’être une exception, ou bien un cas tout à fait à part. La notion de comportement est la plus appropriée à mon avis, car il s’agit ici avant tout du comportement du financier qui fait une offre. Hors norme est ici pris au sens statistique. |
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une observation aberrante Explanation: outlier observation aberrante n. f. Définition : A data point that differs significantly from other data for a similar phenomenon. Note(s) : For example, if the average sales for some product were 10 units per month, and one month had sales of 500 units, this sales point might be considered an outlier. http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=138573 http://www.termsciences.fr/controller/Index/Rechercher/Rapid... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 8 hrs (2007-10-21 09:08:31 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- The winner's curse is a phenomenon akin to a Pyrrhic victory that occurs in common value auctions with incomplete information. In short, the winner's curse says that in such an auction, the winner will tend to overpay. The winner of an auction is, of course, the bidder who submits the highest bid. Since the auctioned item is worth roughly the same to all bidders, they are distinguished only by their respective estimates. The winner, then, is the bidder making the highest estimate. If we assume that the average bid is accurate, then the highest bidder overestimates the item's value. Thus, the auction's winner is likely to overpay. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winner's_curse Therefore, it is clear that the term "outlier" means the bidder who has over-estimated the bidding value or has made the value significantly differ from the "normal" bidding value. |
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