Recta global media

English translation: Overall mean regression line

11:11 Jul 2, 2016
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Medical - Medical: Pharmaceuticals / Eye drops
Spanish term or phrase: Recta global media
Recta de regresión:
Recta global media: y = 47706981,0438x + 133045,2204
r = 0,9995
El método es lineal ya que el coeficiente de correlación de la recta es r ≥ 0,999.
Lorna O'Donoghue
Local time: 09:17
English translation:Overall mean regression line
Explanation:
I think that here "global" means "overall"; "media" is (arithmetic) mean, i.e., average, in common speech.
See, for example, p. 8 in the document here: https://msu.edu/course/psy/395/foswald/Lecture Notes/395 - 1...
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Thomas Walker
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4Standard Deviation line
Francois Boye
4Overall mean regression line
Thomas Walker


  

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Standard Deviation line


Explanation:
recta global media literally means line (of) global averages. In English, the established expression is Standard Deviation Line (SDL): it is the line that goes through the point defined by the averages of the endogenous and exogenous variables in a simple regression. See the attachment below:

http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~stark/SticiGui/Text/regression...

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Overall mean regression line


Explanation:
I think that here "global" means "overall"; "media" is (arithmetic) mean, i.e., average, in common speech.
See, for example, p. 8 in the document here: https://msu.edu/course/psy/395/foswald/Lecture Notes/395 - 1...

Thomas Walker
United States
Local time: 01:17
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 16
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