no enteros

English translation: non-integer

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Spanish term or phrase:no enteros
English translation:non-integer
Entered by: Muriel Vasconcellos

12:06 Dec 11, 2015
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Science - Mathematics & Statistics / Standardized mortality ra
Spanish term or phrase: no enteros
This is a footnote. The context is mostly formulas. 'Incomplete degrees of freedom'?

Tiwari propone el uso de la distribución Chi cuadrado, como caso particular de la distribución Gamma, pero es necesario considerar grados de libertad **no enteros**. La función estadística de Excel PRUEBA.CHI.INV solo contempla grados de libertad enteros.
Muriel Vasconcellos
United States
Local time: 20:42
non-integer/real
Explanation:
See Gamma and Beta integral defined functions

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I say 'real' because a gamma function is defined in the set of real positive numbers
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Francois Boye
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Local time: 23:42
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Thanks, François!
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5 +4non-integer/real
Francois Boye
5 +1non-integer
Caroline Clarke


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16 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +1
non-integer


Explanation:
It's talking about the degrees of freedom:

"but one must consider non-integer degrees of freedom"


    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degrees_of_freedom_(statistics)
Caroline Clarke
Local time: 04:42
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 8

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agree  DLyons
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10 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +4
non-integer/real


Explanation:
See Gamma and Beta integral defined functions

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Note added at 26 mins (2015-12-11 12:33:05 GMT)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMeYdCLGvLk

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Note added at 4 hrs (2015-12-11 16:34:00 GMT)
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I say 'real' because a gamma function is defined in the set of real positive numbers

Francois Boye
United States
Local time: 23:42
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 72
Grading comment
Thanks, François!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Florencio Alonso: non-integer
15 mins
  -> Gracias, Florencio!

agree  neilmac
3 hrs
  -> Thanks,Neil!

agree  DLyons
10 hrs

agree  Thomas Walker: Agree, although there seem to be more references using "non-integral" than "non-integer". See http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/16921/how-to-unders... 1st answer.
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