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The complete collection of data from every member of the population
What is a census?
Data consisting of numbers representing counts or measurements
What is quantitative data?
a harmless and ineffective pill, medicine, or procedure sometimes used for psychological benefit or sometimes used by researchers for comparison to other treatments
What is a placebo?
A subcollection of members selected from a population
What is a sample?
Involves applications of statistics, computer science, and software engineering, along with some other relevant fields (such as sociology or finance)
the repetition of an experiment on more than one individual
What is replication?
The complete collection of all measurements or data that are being considered
What is a population?
Data sets so large and so complex that their analysis is beyond the capabilities of traditional software tools
What is big data?
a technique in which the subject doesn’t know whether he or she is receiving a treatment or a placebo
What is blinding?