datum

(noun)

A measurement of something on a scale understood by both the recorder (a person or device) and the reader (another person or device).

Related Terms

Examples of datum in the following topics:

  • Change of Scale

    • The standard score is the number of standard deviations an observation or datum is above the mean.
    • Thus, a positive standard score represents a datum above the mean, while a negative standard score represents a datum below the mean.

  • Z-Scores and Location in a Distribution

    • A raw score is an original datum, or observation, that has not been transformed.

  • Descriptive Statistics

    • One piece of information is called a "datum.")

  • Key Terms

    • Datum is a single value.

  • Frequency

    • A frequency is the number of times a given datum occurs in a data set.