Practical Data Analysis with JMP, Second Edition, 2nd Edition

2 Data Sources and Structures

Overview

Populations, Processes, and Samples

Representativeness and Sampling

Simple Random Sampling

Other Types of Random Sampling

Non-Random Sampling

Big Data

Cross-Sectional and Time Series Sampling

Study Design: Experimentation, Observation, and Surveying

Experimental Data—An Example

Observational Data—An Example

Survey Data—An Example

Creating a Data Table

Raw Case Data and Summary Data

Application

Overview

This chapter is about data. More specifically, it is about how we make choices when we gather or generate data for analysis in a statistical investigation, and how we store that data in JMP files for further analysis. This chapter introduces some data storage concepts that are further developed in Appendix ...