censurant
English translation: censored data
| 15:16 Feb 19, 2015 |
| French to English translations [PRO] Tech/Engineering - Mathematics & Statistics / Statistical models for steel toughness testing | |||||||
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|  Selected response from: DLyons Ireland Local time: 10:21 | ||||||
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| 4 +1 | censored data |
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| 3 | limit-setting |
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| 3 | prohibitive |
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| 2 | censoring |
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| 2 | limiting |
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46 mins confidence: 
censoring Explanation: Never heard of it in FR, but maybe I didn't get to the level required to learn about it. Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censoring_%28statistics%29 |
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46 mins confidence:
limiting Explanation: Low confidence because I'm getting this from the context. The "censure à droite" in the next sentence is almost certainly an upper limit. So, the approximate data is used to provide statistical limits - i.e. a range for the correct answer. |
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1 hr confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1| information statistique censurante censored data Explanation: It says right censored, so higher values of the data are missing. There's a series of destructive tests on different samples at different temperatures, and the test pieces fail. It seems as though they regard the values obtained at failure as being lower bounds on what different test pieces might have achieved. |
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7 hrs confidence:
limit-setting Explanation: If the data is from destructive testing and gives minimum limits for the resistance required, then it does make sense that the right hand value would be the lower limit to be achieved. Data on points of failure is only achieved when the material tested has reached its limit and failed. So the sample giving the failure point on the right-hand-side of the dataset is the one selected as the minimum quality required. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 7 hrs (2015-02-19 22:37:54 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- I probably should have set the confidence level at 2, rather than 3, as I am not at all sure of this and it could be "censoring". |
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7 hrs confidence:
prohibitive Explanation: Whilst not a specialist in this field, I am used to reading scientific papers and handling some stats. The term "prohibitive" probably works in your sentence. By the way, you have not provided the name of the authors of the publication cited, but the chance are that the publication exists in English. With the subject matter, the date and the authors, you can probably track it down and see at least the extract, if not the full text. That may help. If you have the bibliography, then you no doubt have the full title of the paper. |
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