DATA POINT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does data point mean? 

• DATA POINT (noun)
  The noun DATA POINT has 1 sense:

1. an item of factual information derived from measurement or research

  Familiarity information: DATA POINT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DATA POINT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An item of factual information derived from measurement or research

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

data point; datum

Hypernyms ("data point" is a kind of...):

information (knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "data point"):

indication; meter reading; reading (a datum about some physical state that is presented to a user by a meter or similar instrument)

statistic (a datum that can be represented numerically)

 Context examples 

An interval into which a given data point does or does not fall.

(Bin, NCI Thesaurus)

The substitution of a missing data point with the value from the subject's baseline observation that is not missing.

(Baseline Observation Carried Forward Imputation Technique, NCI Thesaurus)