Introduction to Statistics: basic terms
Data
Information about things that are given, whether labels or numbers, alongside with context
Data Table
a form of representation that has arranged data
Row represents a case
Colum represents a variable
Context
Ideally explains
Who was measured
What was measured
hoW the data were collected
Where the data were collected
When and Why the study performed
Case
A person or thing we have data on
Respondent
Subject
Participant
Experimental unit
Record
Variable
Sample
Population
Identifier variable
Categorical Variable
Quantitative variable
Units
Population of interest