Glossary entry

Spanish term or phrase:

ser menor al de tablas

English translation:

be less/smaller than the value in the tables

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Spanish term

ser menor al de tablas

Homework / test Spanish to English Medical Medical: Pharmaceuticals
Test de igualdad de varianzas entre grupos del mismo tamaño (test de Cochran):
Utilizado para determinar si el factor concentración influye en los resultados. El valor obtenido debe ser menor al de tablas para confirmar que la variación de concentración no influye en los resultados.
G tablas - Valor test de Cochran (a=0,05 / k=3 / n=3): 0,87
G test: 0,56
Resultado: CUMPLE TEST

less than that of tables


Buenas noches, es un párrafo solo lo que tengo de información. Decidí traducir como tables porque no encontré otra cosa,
A Manual for the Chemical Analysis of Metals
https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=ViOMjoLKB1gC
Conversely, if the calculated value of t is less than the table value, no significant difference between the two means was found. ... One interesting variation on the t-test provides a useful way to compare the means from two methods using no special replicate runs but only the results obtained by both methods on a variety of ...


Pero no entiendo si es o no lo correcto.

Muchas gracias

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be less/smaller than the value in the tables

Better to be literal than to make a mistake. It might help for you to read up on Cochran's test/rule. Here are two examples:

https://www.medcalc.org › Manual › Crosstabs
If the Cochran's Q test results in a P-value less than this significance level, MedCalc performs a test for pairwise comparison of variables according to Sheskin, 2004. ... This table gives the frequencies of the values coded 0 (meaning absence or failure) and 1 (meaning presence or success) in the different variables, the ...

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00031305.2017.1...
The body of the paper concerns the numerical evaluation of Cochran's Rule about the minimum expected value in r×c contingency tables with fixed margins when testing independence with Pearson's X2 statistic using the χ2 distribution.

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Note added at 7 hrs (2018-03-15 05:39:52 GMT)
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Note that I spelled out 'value' where Spanish only used "al".
For writers in Spanish it is important to try to avoid repeating a noun (sometimes at the cost of clarity), whereas in English technical writing you are encouraged to repeat, repeat, repeat to make sure there is no confusion.
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