(thing) by enkidu Fri Apr 06 2001 at 15:44:45

When many observations are made in a single experiment or regarding a single phenomenon, they are called a data set. A single observation, or datum, is called a data point. This may be construed as gramatically incorrect; see the argument under "data" is plural.

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