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Zufallsvorgang

English translation: random process

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German term or phrase:Zufallsvorgang
English translation:random process
Entered by: Bonnie

17:07 Apr 18, 2003
German to English translations [PRO]
Science - Mathematics & Statistics / statistics
German term or phrase: Zufallsvorgang
Grundbegriff der Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie
Bonnie
Local time: 21:42
random process
Explanation:
What I learned in the USA.
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jccantrell
United States
Local time: 12:42
Grading comment
Thank you very much!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +5random process
jccantrell
5stochastic process
mbrunet
5random occurance
Manfred Mondt
4random events
Valentín Hernández Lima
4coincidental process
Ellen Zittinger


  

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7 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +5
random process


Explanation:
What I learned in the USA.

jccantrell
United States
Local time: 12:42
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 19
Grading comment
Thank you very much!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Heike Behl, Ph.D.
1 min
agree  Kim Metzger
16 mins
agree  Ellen Zittinger
8 hrs
agree  Madeleine van Zanten: procedure would be more appropriate in statistics
19 hrs
agree  arm_ro
2 days 13 hrs
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9 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
random events


Explanation:
Both in statistics and mathematics they are called "random events" in general, with the meaning of events lacking or seeming to lack a regular plan, purpose, or pattern.

V


    Reference: http://www.sense-dac.com/Application/AP11.htm
    Reference: http://www.warwick.ac.uk/statsdept/teaching/ST213.html
Valentín Hernández Lima
Spain
Local time: 20:42
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Kim Metzger: Trouble is, Vorgang is process or procedure. Random event would be Zufallsereigniss.
15 mins
  -> Danke, Kim. Aber Vorgang ist auch etwas was vor sich geht, abläuft, sich entwickelt. Das kann man mit "event" auf Englisch übersetzen.
neutral  jccantrell: But 'event' implies discrete happenings, while Vorgang, to my mind, does not.
50 mins
  -> Thank you, JC. This is true. I tend to agree with you and Kim now. Random events would be "Zufallsereignisse" in German then.
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7 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
stochastic process


Explanation:
An alternative to "random process".

mbrunet
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8 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
coincidental process


Explanation:
coincidence

Ellen Zittinger
Local time: 12:42
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in GermanGerman
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22 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
random occurance


Explanation:
In the years when I studied statistics in behaviour science, I never came across terms like random process or procedure. Statistics usually try to express in a mathematical way the relationship of the dependend (controlled) to the independend (controlling) variable, in order to state how small the likelyhood is, of the observed event "occuring randomly" or by chance. Obviously there are no procedures to "make" such event to happen "randomly". But we can say the event happening, if we did nothing, would be very slim!

Manfred Mondt
United States
Local time: 15:42
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
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