measurement

measurement

Measurement is the process by which we represent some attribute of an object with a number or place it into a category.

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      Measurement error is error caused by the natural fluctuation in most real-world measurements.

    • unstandardized slope

      Unstandardized slope measures steepness of the best-fitting line; because It will depend on the units of measurement of the variables included, it must be interpreted in context.

    • bimodal distribution

      Bimodal distribution has two clear clumps of scores around two parts of the measurement scale, with few in the middle.

    • values

      Values are the number or category that represents an individual case's measurement on that variable (e.g., 65 represents an individual student's thumb length in mm).

    • data

      Data are numbers that represent something about the world; the result of sampling and measurement.