Statistics in Scientific Investigation pp 34-45 | Cite as
Data: The Factual Information
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Abstract
In Analytic Statistics, the data collected are used to provide the factual information about the experimental process which generated them. Hence, there is good reason to seek a sample of persons from a population or a sample of outcomes from an experimental process which is representative of the population or the outcomes from the process.
Keywords
Sample Selection Random Selection Systematic Sampling Experimental Process Nominal Level
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