notes du facteur

English translation: factor scores

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French term or phrase:notes du facteur
English translation:factor scores
Entered by: Nicole Pennebaker

14:04 Jun 14, 2020
French to English translations [PRO]
Science - Mathematics & Statistics / From an academic article in Pyschiatry
French term or phrase: notes du facteur
I need help specifically translating the phrase "notes du facteur". It comes from an academic article in a Journal of Psychiatry. It's not from a sentence, but from an equation used to calculate factor scores:

total des notes d'items * 100/total des "notes du facteur" = note factorielle

The "items" they're referring to in the calculation are a list of symptoms (i.e., euphoria, dysphoria, depression, etc.) I keep wanting to translate "notes du facteur" as "factor scores", but that doesn't make sense if "note factorielle" is "factor score". Any help would be appreciated.
Nicole Pennebaker
United States
Local time: 02:41
factor scores
Explanation:
(The general subject is indeed a statistical analysis designated "factor analysis".)
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Reference:
What is a factor score? A factor score is a numerical value that indicates a person's relative spacing or standing on a latent factor. In order to develop this definition further, however, we must draw a distinction that grew out of the indeterminacy debate between "factor scores" and "factor score estimates".
Processing Link What is a factor score?

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Note added at 1 day 19 hrs (2020-06-16 09:20:12 GMT)
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Correspondingly, one would translate "notes d'items" as "item scores" or "symptom scores".
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TechLawDC
United States
Local time: 04:41
Grading comment
Yes, this is how I ultimately translated it. Thank you!
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Summary of answers provided
4factor scores
TechLawDC
3factorial notes/index/analysis
Juan Arturo Blackmore Zerón
3factorial scores
SafeTex
3factor ranking /grading
Chris Pr
3 -1notes from the factor or postal delivery
Lisa Rosengard


Discussion entries: 3





  

Answers


3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
factorial notes/index/analysis


Explanation:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/23709931_Reliabilit...

Juan Arturo Blackmore Zerón
Mexico
Local time: 03:41
Native speaker of: Spanish
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5 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
factorial scores


Explanation:
Could well be this


    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7895633/
    https://books.google.fr/books?id=G01WBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA523&lpg=PA523&dq=%22factorial+scores%22+depression&source=bl&ots=2PMe13hmgb&sig=ACfU3U2vJ
SafeTex
France
Local time: 09:41
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 7
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9 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): -1
notes from the factor or postal delivery


Explanation:
The above is a definition which stays directly with the original text in which 'du' means 'from the' while 'le facteur' is 'the factor' or 'post delivery person'.

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Note added at 9 hrs (2020-06-14 23:28:54 GMT)
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After more consideration, the literal translation may be inappropriate when the answer required is connected with factorial scores, points or ratings.

Lisa Rosengard
United Kingdom
Local time: 08:41
Native speaker of: English

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  SafeTex: Lisa: When you post a completely wrong answer, as you seem to have realized by your note, the best thing to do is to delete the answer giving a reason.
7 hrs

disagree  AllegroTrans: you have looked at this again, could you please do this with all your other inappropriate answers please? And does a 'factor' deliver post??
9 hrs
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1 day 19 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
factor scores


Explanation:
(The general subject is indeed a statistical analysis designated "factor analysis".)
---
Reference:
What is a factor score? A factor score is a numerical value that indicates a person's relative spacing or standing on a latent factor. In order to develop this definition further, however, we must draw a distinction that grew out of the indeterminacy debate between "factor scores" and "factor score estimates".
Processing Link What is a factor score?

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Note added at 1 day 19 hrs (2020-06-16 09:20:12 GMT)
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Correspondingly, one would translate "notes d'items" as "item scores" or "symptom scores".

TechLawDC
United States
Local time: 04:41
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Yes, this is how I ultimately translated it. Thank you!
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2 days 9 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
factor ranking /grading


Explanation:
Just a couple more to add to the mix...

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Note added at 2 days 9 hrs (2020-06-16 23:37:17 GMT)
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And then another one pops to mind:

factor weighting

Chris Pr
United Kingdom
Local time: 08:41
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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