What do we mean by “data”?

What do we mean by “data”?#

Learning objectives#

After working through this topic, you should be able to:

  • reproduce the definitions of data from Computer Science and Statistics

  • differentiate between data from samples and entire populations

  • explain the difference between numerical and categorical data

  • provide examples of tables and table columns using the standard \(x_{k, i}\) notation

Materials#

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