Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Spanish term or phrase:
fue bien repartida
English translation:
was widely spread
Added to glossary by
Charles Davis
Jun 26, 2011 23:50
12 yrs ago
Spanish term
fue bien repartida
Spanish to English
Social Sciences
Mathematics & Statistics
Para el análisis descriptivo del grupo de 6 a 14 años en general se recolectaron datos de 222 niños, siendo 110 varones y 112 hembras. Para cada uno, se recolectó la edad por reporte de la madre y la fecha de nacimiento. La distribución final de niños por edad fue bien repartida como lo muestra la Gráfica X.
The final age distribution of the children was even? (I'm trying to avoid repeating the word distributed)
The distribution looks fairly even in the graph except for ages 7-9. I'd like to confirm this interpretation. Thanks in advance.
The final age distribution of the children was even? (I'm trying to avoid repeating the word distributed)
The distribution looks fairly even in the graph except for ages 7-9. I'd like to confirm this interpretation. Thanks in advance.
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Jul 3, 2011 18:25: Charles Davis Created KOG entry
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was widely spread
"Well distributed" would be fine, but "the distribution was well distributed" doesn't work so well. "Divided" tends to imply falling into two groups. I think "widely spread" conveys the same meaning:
"However, if you read that the semi-interquartile range of their scores was 5, you might not know whether their score distribution was widely spread or very narrow."
Richard M. Jaeger, Statistics: A Spectator Sport, p. 52
http://books.google.es/books?id=Gyw-CdV1XMIC&pg=PA52&lpg=PA5...
"the size distribution was widely spread suggesting that the irregular mitoses were prevailing events in producing the 3rd nucleus"
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/01657992879...
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Or better (if I may follow my colleagues' example and emend my answer): evenly spread. This would be much better, because in this case it sounds as though the distribution is even rather than wide.
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"The age distribution was evenly spread through adult life with no definite peak incidence."
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/69399
Definitely. Please treat this as my answer and ignore the first version.
"However, if you read that the semi-interquartile range of their scores was 5, you might not know whether their score distribution was widely spread or very narrow."
Richard M. Jaeger, Statistics: A Spectator Sport, p. 52
http://books.google.es/books?id=Gyw-CdV1XMIC&pg=PA52&lpg=PA5...
"the size distribution was widely spread suggesting that the irregular mitoses were prevailing events in producing the 3rd nucleus"
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/01657992879...
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Or better (if I may follow my colleagues' example and emend my answer): evenly spread. This would be much better, because in this case it sounds as though the distribution is even rather than wide.
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"The age distribution was evenly spread through adult life with no definite peak incidence."
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/69399
Definitely. Please treat this as my answer and ignore the first version.
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David Hollywood
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was well distributed
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or: spread out
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if you don't want to repeat "distributed"
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or: spread out
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if you don't want to repeat "distributed"
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philgoddard
: The ages were well distributed.
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| agree |
Maria Mastruzzo
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Michael Powers (PhD)
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was well divided
The final distribution ... was well divided as Graph X shows.
Mike
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Intially I was going to use "distributed" which is a great translation in isolation, but when I saw it started with "The final distributinon ..." I attempted to change the word to avoid the redundancy. That was the reason I was going for "divided" or "splint into" etc.
Mike
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Intially I was going to use "distributed" which is a great translation in isolation, but when I saw it started with "The final distributinon ..." I attempted to change the word to avoid the redundancy. That was the reason I was going for "divided" or "splint into" etc.
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Spanish term (edited):
La distribución final de niños por edad fue bien repartida
The ages of the children were well distributed, in the final data.
The ages of the children were well distributed, in the final data.
(This amount of rewriting of the sentence should be acceptable, because it closely tracks the author's meaning, and the Spanish is somewhat un-English.)
(This amount of rewriting of the sentence should be acceptable, because it closely tracks the author's meaning, and the Spanish is somewhat un-English.)
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(The distribution of the children by age) demonstrated a good spread...
Avoids using distribute/tion twice and "the spread" is a commonly used term in statistical analysis (as in spread betting). I don't agree with "was widely" spread, because widely is not necessarily the same as a good (bien) spread.
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James A. Walsh
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Spanish term (edited):
fue bien repartida
were more or less equally distributed
From what I can gather from your context, especially your comment about the difference between ages 7-9, this would seem an accurate translation here.
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I meant to say, to avoid the 'distribution/distributed' problem, why not just say 'results' for 'distribution', as in the results of the analysis...
Example sentence:
La distribución final de niños por edad <u>fue bien repartida</u> como lo muestra la Gráfica X.
The results showed that children <u>were more or less equally distributed</u> by age, as shown in Graph X.
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