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| The context ideally tells Who was measured, What was measured, How the data were collected, Where the data were collected, and When and Why the study was performed. |
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| Systematically recorded information, wheather numbers or labels, together with its context. |
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| An arrangement of data in which each row represents a case and each column represents a variable. |
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| A case is an individual about whom or which we have data. |
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| All the cases we wish we knew about. |
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| The cases we actually examine in seeking to understand the much larger population. |
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| A variable holds information about the same characteristic for many cases. |
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| A quantity or amount adopted as a standard of measurement, such as dollars, hours, or grams. |
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| A variable that names categories (wheather with words or numerals). |
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| A variable in which the numbers act as numerical values. Quantitative variables always have units. |
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