alkio

English translation: element

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Finnish term or phrase:alkio
English translation:element
Entered by: TimoK

14:49 Oct 22, 2009
Finnish to English translations [PRO]
Science - Marketing / Market Research
Finnish term or phrase: alkio
Seuraavassa vaiheessa määritellään otosyksikkö. Se voi olla esimerkiksi yksilö, ruokakunta, toimipaikka tai yritys. Otosyksikkö voi sisältää useitakin ***alkioita***.
TimoK
Finland
Local time: 18:01
element
Explanation:
Tämä on tilastotieteessä ja matematiikassa käytetty termi
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Erkki Pekkinen
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5element
Owen Witesman
4element
Erkki Pekkinen
4elementary unit
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element


Explanation:
Tämä on tilastotieteessä ja matematiikassa käytetty termi

Example sentence(s):
  • Groups of elements of , for example , are subsets of A.

    Reference: http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Element+(mathemati...
Erkki Pekkinen
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element


Explanation:
If you were analyzing census data you could take a random sample of the neighborhoods included in the census--but the neighborhood data is actually an aggregate of information about individual people who were measured. So the individual people exist as elements in the data, but have been aggregated into larger units of analysis.


    Reference: http://www.uic.edu/classes/socw/socw560/Sampling1.htm
Owen Witesman
Local time: 10:01
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elementary unit


Explanation:
Oheisessa linkissä myös otanta yms. tilastotermejä.

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Note added at 1 hr (2009-10-22 16:00:32 GMT)
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Linkistä:
The primary sampling unit may be an elementary unit or a cluster of units...
http://books.google.fi/books?id=7tNUu92d5PkC&pg=PA198&lpg=PA...

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Note added at 1 hr (2009-10-22 16:05:49 GMT)
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Linkistä:
Erityisesti markkinoinnissa tilastotieteellä on merkittävä rooli.
http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/mattiet/tilasto/op9799.html#1.1


    Reference: http://www.joensuu.fi/statistics/tilsanat.txt
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