uncentered
- adjective
- /ʌnˈsɛntərd/
- Specialized
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no centrado
- All dichotomous predictors were uncentered, and the parental education variable that had multiple categories was grand mean centered.
Examples
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To assess the potential effects of changes in hard drug arrest rates on changes in injection drug use, we separated hard drug arrest rate data into two components: the one-year lagged initial values centered around the grand mean of the initial year and the year-to-year change, represented by subtracting the uncentered hard drug arrest rates of the previous year from the uncentered hard drug arrest rates in the current year.
Academic text (2011) -
The data analysis showed that the values were uncentered, indicating they had not been adjusted to account for the mean.
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To assess the potential effects of changes in hard drug arrest rates on changes in injection drug use, we separated hard drug arrest rate data into two components: the one-year lagged initial values centered around the grand mean of the initial year and the year-to-year change, represented by subtracting the uncentered hard drug arrest rates of the previous year from the uncentered hard drug arrest rates in the current year.
Academic text (2011) -
In the statistical report, the researchers highlighted that the uncentered variables could lead to misleading results.
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When calculating the average, the teams used an uncentered approach, which means they did not subtract the mean from their values.
Synonyms
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Not changed to fit needs or different conditions
Expressed in original units rather than a common scale
Values shown in their original measurement units and not changed to a common scale
Antonyms
How Centered
Surface Forms
Morphology
uncentered = centered (semi-transparent) = un + center + ed
Morphologically it's a straightforward negation of 'centered', but the statistical sense of 'centered' (mean-adjusted) is technical and may not be known to average learners.
Etymology
Uncentered is built from un- ('not') and center ('middle' or 'average'), and in statistics it means numbers that have not been moved to the average. So uncentered values are the raw data, not adjusted by subtracting the average.