Raw Data

Statistics is about collecting, sorting, presenting, analysing and interpreting data.

Raw data

This describes the initial information collected. It is usually not sorted at all, and may be difficult to interpret in a meaningful way.

An example would be:

The following scores were obtained by 40 students in a maths test:

15	13	8	15	11	17	17	15	11	15
16	16	18	16	12	13	16	19	16	14
9	18	20	12	17	10	14	13	15	18
11	14	17	9	18	14	17	17	13	20