The term for the numeric value of the variable for a single element in the sample.

• A. Data capture
• B. Data set
• C. Observations
• D. Univariate data

Answer: (C)

In statistics, the value you record for one member of the sample is an observation (often called a data point). Each element of the sample yields one observation, and collecting all of them together forms the data set. If you’re measuring just one variable, the data set is univariate data. Data capture, by contrast, refers to the process of recording the data, not the value itself. So the single numeric value for one element is best described as an observation.