Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
pas à pas descendante
English translation:
Backward elimination
Added to glossary by
DLyons
Dec 13, 2014 00:20
9 yrs ago
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French term
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pas à pas descendante
French to English
Medical
Mathematics & Statistics
thesis for a specialized degree in medicine
"L’ensemble des statistiques a été réalisé à l’aide du logiciel StatView v5 (SAS institute corp). Le test statistique du Chi2 a été utilisé pour comparer les variables qualitatives et le test-t de Student pour les variables quantitatives. Le seuil de significativité a été fixé à p
Proposed translations
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| 2 | Backward elimination |
DLyons
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| 4 +2 | descending stepwise (regression) |
Anne Bohy
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Change log
Dec 18, 2014 18:36: DLyons Created KOG entry
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Backward elimination
Most commonly. But, without source, who knows.
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Note added at 13 hrs (2014-12-13 13:52:18 GMT)
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The additional context corresponds exactly to what I said. But as njweatherdon says, without some of the Math, it's hard to know what's best. "descending stepwise logistic regression" is certainly possible, however "descending stepwise logistic regression (backward elimination)" would be tautological.
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Note added at 13 hrs (2014-12-13 13:52:18 GMT)
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The additional context corresponds exactly to what I said. But as njweatherdon says, without some of the Math, it's hard to know what's best. "descending stepwise logistic regression" is certainly possible, however "descending stepwise logistic regression (backward elimination)" would be tautological.
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descending stepwise (regression)
En général ceci qualifie une méthode de régression. Si c'est autre chose, je donne ma langue au chat.
Je trouve que c'est quand même très fort de nous donner ces quelques mots et un contexte qui ne leur correspond pas !
Je trouve que c'est quand même très fort de nous donner ces quelques mots et un contexte qui ne leur correspond pas !
Discussion
My question was: Could I translate this last sentence as "Multivariate analysis was performed by backward elimination logistic regression."
Or as (after seeing Bohy's answer): Multivariate analysis was performed by descending stepwise logistic regression (backward elimination).
The source is a thesis written by a doctor in Nantes France who is trying for a degree is specialized medicine.
Again, I apologize for the incomplete description.