Definition Observation
In a statistical context, this term can have two similar and yet distinct meanings. When talking about databases, one can refer to single entries as observations. When talking about surveys or, more in general, in social sciences, observations are a tracking or mapping of people’s behavior with regards to a certain issue without asking them direct questions.
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- Overfitting
- Outlier
- Ordinal scale
- Opinion poll
- Observation
- Objectivity