April 13, 2012
A new StatsChat bogus poll
Thomas Lumley (@tslumley) is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. His research interests include semiparametric models, survey sampling, statistical computing, foundations of statistics, and whatever methodological problems his medical collaborators come up with. He also blogs at Biased and Inefficient See all posts by Thomas Lumley »
I have three facts.
I have three data.
12 years ago
Of course, if you’re a geographer, you have singular datum, plural datums.
12 years ago
“Give me the data.” – of course, but you won’t mind if I randomly permute the datums before giving them to you.
To try making the point another way, data is a structured collection of numbers, not simply a set of numbers.
12 years ago