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In Analytic Statistics, the data collected are used to provide the factual information about the experimental process which generated them. Hence, there is good reason to seek a sample of persons from a population or a sample of outcomes from an experimental process which is representative of the population or the outcomes from the process.
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McPherson, G. (1990). Data: The Factual Information. In: Statistics in Scientific Investigation. Springer Texts in Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4290-9_2
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