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Glossary entry

French term or phrase:

la zone de linéarité est rompue

English translation:

the relationship between X and Y is no longer linear

Added to glossary by CMarc
Mar 30, 2013 10:38
11 yrs ago
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French term

la zone de linéarité est rompue

French to English Science Mathematics & Statistics Vitamin supplement concentrations
FR = La concentration plasmatique aujourd’hui considérée comme optimale est celle pour laquelle la zone de linéarité entre l’apport et la concentration plasmatique est rompue et le pouvoir antioxydant est maximal.
EN = Currently, optimal plasma concentrations are considered to be those at which there is no linearity between intake and plasma concentration, and the antioxidant potential is at maximum levels.

The suggestion of no linearity is a complete guess. Any statistics fans able to help?
Thank you!
Proposed translations (English)
4 +2 the relationship between X and Y is no longer linear

Discussion

CMarc (asker) Mar 30, 2013:
Thanks! That sounds perfectly logical in my context. There was a linear relationship between the two parameters up to a certain point.
DLyons Mar 30, 2013:
That's absolutely correct Nikki. I read the French as saying the former.
Nikki Scott-Despaigne Mar 30, 2013:
I'm not what you might call a "fan" of stats, but I have done a teeny weeny little bit of stats. That aside, there is a difference which may be important in context (or not) between saying (literally) that an area of linearity has been broken and that there is no linearity. In the former, it is clear that one has existed; that is not apparent in the latter.

Proposed translations

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the relationship between X and Y is no longer linear

Here:
X = intake
Y = plasma concentration
Peer comment(s):
agree Nikki Scott-Despaigne : Clear.
2 hrs
Thanks Nikki.
agree Turcotte Lyne : I have a b.sc in mathematics, and this answer sounds right to me
2 days 4 hrs
Thanks Turcotte. Snap!
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