Glossary entry (derived from question below)
German term or phrase:
Zufallsvorgang
English translation:
random process
Added to glossary by
Bonnie
Apr 18, 2003 17:07
21 yrs ago
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German term
Zufallsvorgang
German to English
Science
Mathematics & Statistics
statistics
Grundbegriff der Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie
Proposed translations
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| 4 +5 | random process |
jccantrell
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| 5 | stochastic process |
mbrunet
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| 5 | random occurance |
Manfred Mondt
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| 4 | random events |
Valentín Hernández Lima
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| 4 | coincidental process |
Ellen Zittinger
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Proposed translations
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7 mins
jccantrell
United States
United States
Native in English
United States
Was nicht ist, kann noch werden.
Native in: English (Variant: US) 
Works in: German to English
Related KudoZ points
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Selected
random process
What I learned in the USA.
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Thank you very much!"
9 mins
Valentín Hernández Lima
Spain
Spain
Spain
37 happy years translating for millions
Native in: Spanish (Variants: Latin American, Standard-Spain)
Works in: German to Spanish, English to Spanish, French to Spanish, and 1 more.
random events
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.
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Peer comment(s):
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Kim Metzger
: Trouble is, Vorgang is process or procedure. Random event would be Zufallsereigniss.
15 mins
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Danke, Kim. Aber Vorgang ist auch etwas was vor sich geht, abläuft, sich entwickelt. Das kann man mit "event" auf Englisch übersetzen.
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jccantrell
: But 'event' implies discrete happenings, while Vorgang, to my mind, does not.
50 mins
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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
stochastic process
An alternative to "random process".
8 hrs
Ellen Zittinger
Native in German
&
English
Educator/Realtor/Securities Rep/Agent
Native in: English 
, German
Works in: English to German, German to English
coincidental process
coincidence
22 hrs
Manfred Mondt
United States
United States
Native in German
United States
The Key to Industrial Automation
Native in: German
Works in: English to German, German to English
random occurance
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!
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