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Scientific Data are units of information, often numeric, that are collected through o
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Inferential Statistics is the use of measurements from the sample of subjects in the ex
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Sources of Variation are two; the first are the differences found within observed value
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Quality is the standard of something as measured against other things of a similar kind
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