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| Oberservations (such as measurements, genders, survey responses) that have been collected. |
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| A collection of methods for planning studies and experiments, obtaining data, and then organizing, summarizing, presenting, analyzing, interpreting, and drawing conclusions based on the data. |
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| The complete collection of all elements (scores, people, measurements, and so on) to be studied. The collection is complete in the sense that it includes all subjects to be studied. |
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| The collection of data from EVERY member of the population. |
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| A SUBCOLLECTION of members selected from a population. |
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| A numberical measurement describing some characteristic of a POPULATION. |
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| A numerical measurement describing some characteristic of a SAMPLE. |
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| Numbers representing counts of measurements. |
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| Qualitative data (AKA Categorical or Attribute) |
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| Can be separated into different categories that are distinguished by some nonnumeric characteristic. |
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| Results when the number of possible values is either a finite number or a "countable" number. |
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| Continuous data (AKA numerical) |
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| Result from infinitely many possible values that correspond to some continuous scale that covers a range of values without gaps, interruptions, or jumps. |
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| Nominal Level of Measurement |
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| Characterized by data that consist of names, labels, or categories only. The data cannot be arranged in an ordering scheme. |
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| Ordinal Level of Measurement |
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| Characterized by data that can be arranged in some order, but differences between data values either cannot be determined or are meaningless. |
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