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entity go
that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving)

abstraction, abstract entity go
a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples

psychological feature go
a feature of the mental life of a living organism

cognition, knowledge, noesis go
the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning

information go
knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction

datum, data point go
an item of factual information derived from measurement or research

statistic
a datum that can be represented numerically

noun.cognition

8 Subcategories

average, norm go
a statistic describing the location of a distribution
demographic go
a statistic characterizing human populations (or segments of human populations broken down by age or sex or income etc.)
deviation go
the difference between an observed value and the expected value of a variable or function
moment go
the n-th moment of a distribution is the expected value of the n-th power of the deviations from a fixed value
nonparametric statistic, distribution free statistic go
a statistic computed without knowledge of the form or the parameters of the distribution from which observations are drawn
parametric statistic go
any statistic computed by procedures that assume the data were drawn from a particular distribution
time series go
a series of values of a variable at successive times
vital statistics go
data relating to births and deaths and health and diseases and marriages