# faiblement dispersé autour de la moyenne

## English translation: laying/falling close to the mean/narrowly distributed about the mean

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 French term or phrase: faiblement dispersé autour de la moyenne English translation: laying/falling close to the mean/narrowly distributed about the mean Entered by:

 04:54 Oct 10, 2016
French to English translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Mathematics & Statistics
 French term or phrase: faiblement dispersé autour de la moyenne le PIB de la RDC a représenté en moyenne annuelle 12,8 milliards de dollars des Etats-Unis entre 1960 et 2008, après avoir atteint un maximum de 19 milliards de dollars en 1987. Il a été faiblement dispersé autour de la moyenne ; The text later on also mentions, for exports and imports, "très peu dispersées" and "fortement dispersées" both before "autour de la moyenne". I'm thinking of something along the lines of "narrowly distributed around the mean".
 Scott de LessepsUnited States Local time: 20:57
 laying/falling close to the mean Explanation:It may be better to change the sentence structure to talk about the values being close to the mean or not. Otherwise I think your suggestion of distribution works well. If you were talking about correlation in a scatter diagram then I think 'scatter' or 'spread' would work equally well.
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Holly-Anne Whyte
United Kingdom
Local time: 01:57
 I decided to go with "narrowly distributed about the mean", but this answer seems to be the closest to that, so I'm picking yours, Holly-Anne. Thanks to everyone for all the answers and all the comments.4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

4 +1with a small standard deviation around the mean
 Claude B
3 +1laying/falling close to the mean
 Holly-Anne Whyte
3with small scatter around the mean
 M.A.B.
2ranging closely around the average
 Wendy Streitparth

Discussion entries: 10

1 hr   confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
with a small standard deviation around the mean

Explanation:
Using statistical jargon (see links below for details in French and English).
But it may be too technical in this context?

"A large standard deviation indicates that the data points can spread far from the mean and a small standard deviation indicates that they are clustered closely around the mean."

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89cart_type
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_deviation
 Claude BFranceLocal time: 02:57Works in fieldNative speaker of: FrenchPRO pts in category: 4

disagree  Tony M: Yes, but 'standard deviation' is a very specific context, and can't be purloined for use in this sense here.
 9 mins

neutral  Philippe Etienne: A way of conveying it (GDP vs. years in the first instance), but I'd keep it closer to the EN (https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispersion_statistique)
 1 hr

agree  chris collister: The meaning is perfectly correct, though "around the mean" is redundant. Par contre, "weakly dispersed about the mean" would also be acceptable!
 6 hrs

agree  Francois Boye: agree with Chris!
 13 hrs

neutral  DLyons: Much the same as Tony - see above. And definitely not "around the mean"
 2 days 3 hrs

2 hrs   confidence:
ranging closely around the average

Explanation:
Nitrate in KWBC exhibited a low variability (RSD = 6%), ranging closely around the average of 6.9 mg/L.

http://www.water.ca.gov/swp/waterquality/docs/Annual Pumpins...

or just "ranging around the average"

 Wendy StreitparthGermanyLocal time: 02:57Native speaker of: English

7 hrs   confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
laying/falling close to the mean

Explanation:
It may be better to change the sentence structure to talk about the values being close to the mean or not. Otherwise I think your suggestion of distribution works well. If you were talking about correlation in a scatter diagram then I think 'scatter' or 'spread' would work equally well.

Reference: http://www.uow.edu.au/student/qualities/statlit/module3/5.4i...
 Holly-Anne WhyteUnited KingdomLocal time: 01:57Native speaker of: EnglishPRO pts in category: 4
 I decided to go with "narrowly distributed about the mean", but this answer seems to be the closest to that, so I'm picking yours, Holly-Anne. Thanks to everyone for all the answers and all the comments.

agree
 6 hrs

5 hrs   confidence:
with small scatter around the mean

Explanation:
I think "scatter" could be the right word here.

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Note added at   10 godz. (2016-10-10 15:29:46 GMT)
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We now know how to define the mean value of the general variable $u$. But, how can we characterize the scatter around the mean value? We could investigate the deviation of $u$ from its mean value $\bar{u}$, which is denoted
http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/sm1/lectures/node18.ht...

 M.A.B.PolandLocal time: 02:57Specializes in fieldNative speaker of: PolishPRO pts in category: 4

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