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Our daily experience teaches us that some data are generated in accordance to known and precise laws, while other data seem to occur in a purely haphazard way. Data generated in accordance to known and precise laws are called deterministic data. An example of such type of data is: the fall of a body subject to the Earth’s gravity. When the body is released at a height h, we can calculate precisely where the body stands at each time t.
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Marques de Sá, J.P. (2003). Introduction. In: Applied Statistics Using SPSS, STATISTICA and MATLAB. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-05804-6_1
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