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| * It gives surveys of data provided by in the Penn World Tables, OECD Statistics, Eurostat, Groningen Development Centre Database, Economics Web Institute Stats, Pacific Exchange Rate Service, as well as all major U.S. Economic Data Sources: USDL, USDA, Census Bureau, White House etc. | * It gives surveys of data provided by in the Penn World Tables, OECD Statistics, Eurostat, Groningen Development Centre Database, Economics Web Institute Stats, Pacific Exchange Rate Service, as well as all major U.S. Economic Data Sources: USDL, USDA, Census Bureau, White House etc. | ||
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A data set (or dataset) is a collection of data, usually presented in tabular form. Each column represents a particular variable, and each row is an assignment of values for each of the variables to a member of the set in question.
In the simplest case, there is only one variable, and then the data set consists of a single column of values, often represented as a list.
The values may be numbers, such as real numbers or integers, for example representing a person's height in centimeters, but may also be nominal data (i.e., not consisting of numerical values), for example representing a person's ethnicity. For each variable, the values will normally all be of the same kind. However, there may also be "missing values", which need to be indicated in some way.
In statistics data sets usually come from actual observations obtained by sampling a statistical population, and each row corresponds to the observations on one element of that population. Data sets may further be generated by algorithms for the purpose of testing certain kinds of software.
While the term suggests a relationship to set theory it should not be assumed that a given data set is, in fact, a set in the usual mathematically sense. The rows of a data set need not be distinct, and so a data set is technically a multiset.
Other uses
Files are called data sets in the MVS operating system (see Data set (IBM mainframe)) and in statistical packages such as SAS or SPSS.
External links
- Data portal of The Brussels Free Institute for Economic Research It gives surveys of data provided by in the Penn World Tables, OECD Statistics, Eurostat, Groningen Development Centre Database, Economics Web Institute Stats, Pacific Exchange Rate Service, as well as all major U.S. Economic Data Sources: USDL, USDA, Census Bureau, White House etc.
See also
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