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| A quantity or amount adopted as a standard of measurement, such as dollars, hours, or grams. |
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| Is an individual about whom or which we have data. |
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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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| Holds information about the same characteristic for many cases. |
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| Systematically recorded information, whether numbers or labels, together with its context. |
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| All the cases we wish we knew about |
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| Tells Who was measured, How the data were collected, Where the data were collected, and When & Why the study was performed |
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| A variable that names categories (whether with words or numerical) |
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| A variable in which the numbers act as numerical values. These always have units. |
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| The cases we actually examine in seeking to understand the much larger population. |
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