Data Basics: Observations, Variable, and Data Matrices

This video was created by OpenIntro (http://www.openintro.org) and provides an overview of the content in Section 1.2 of OpenIntro Statistics (http://www.openintro.org/stat), which is a free statistics textbook with a $10 paperback option on Amazon. Effective presentation and description of data is a first step in most analyses. This section introduces one structure for organizing data as well as some terminology that is used throughout statistics.