Re : AW: EN>FR : categorical vs. continuous endpoints

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Dear Astrid,

thank you so much for your valuable references and explanations!

Based on your advice and on other searches, I finally decided to use " critères

(d'évaluation/de jugement) nominaux et continus " and I will ask my client to

particularly pay attention to this.

Have a nice week end,

Audrey

 

 

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De : akfmail

À : medical_translation

Envoyé le : Jeu 15 juillet 2010, 23h 49min 24s

Objet : AW: EN>FR : categorical vs. continuous endpoints

 

Hello Audrey,

Your approach is not entirely wrong, assuming you want to say that

categorical endpoints are qualitative variables and continuous endpoints are

quantitative variables (in the example below the terms seem to be reversed),

however the translation is inaccurate, since there are several types of

quantitative and qualitative variables, i.e. qualitative variables can be

nominal or ordinal and quantitative variables can be either discrete or

continuous (see:

http://biblioxtrn.uqar.qc.ca/stat/Fichesstat/Variable/variables.htm and

http://www.chups.jussieu.fr/polys/biostats/poly/POLY.Chp.8.html.). These

websites contain pretty good descriptions so that I don't think I need to

provide any further explanations. Accordingly, I would rather use critères

(de jugement) catégoriels/continus.

Kind regards,

Astrid

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