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indication, meter reading, reading

a datum about some physical state that is presented to a user by a meter or similar instrument

statistic

a datum that can be represented numerically

average, norm

a statistic describing the location of a distribution

demographic

a statistic characterizing human populations (or segments of human populations broken down by age or sex or income etc.)

deviation

the difference between an observed value and the expected value of a variable or function

moment

the n-th moment of a distribution is the expected value of the n-th power of the deviations from a fixed value

distribution free statistic, nonparametric statistic

a statistic computed without knowledge of the form or the parameters of the distribution from which observations are drawn

parametric statistic

any statistic computed by procedures that assume the data were drawn from a particular distribution

time series

a series of values of a variable at successive times

vital statistics

data relating to births and deaths and health and diseases and marriages

clock time, time

a reading of a point in time as given by a clock

miles per hour, mph

a speedometer reading for the momentary rate of travel

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information

knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction