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

      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).
    • standard deviation

      Standard deviation the square root of the variance; we generally prefer thinking about error in terms of standard deviation because it yields a number that makes sense using the original scale of measurement.