Name: What Is Data Collection?
Uploaded: 2023-03-31T08:24:28.044Z
Channel: House of Math
Description: Collecting data is a fundamental part of statistics. You can gather data through surveys or experiments. This video explains the process and things to watch.

Collecting data is a fundamental part of statistics. You can gather data through surveys or experiments. This video explains the process and things to watch.

A way of collecting data, where you ask people’s opinion and register their response

A piece of information about the topic you are studying. Also known as a data point

A way of collecting data, where you do a specific action several times and register the observations

All members that belong to the group you are surveying

A group of people you are surveying, who belong to the population you want to study

A measure of whether the people included in the data collection are the right kind of people to include in order to find an answer to the question you’re studying

A measure of how trustworthy the results are. If someone tampered with the data, the results have low reliability.

A measure of whether the approach used in the data collection is a good approach to find answers to the question you’re studying