RAW DATA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does raw data mean? 

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

1. unanalyzed data; data not yet subjected to analysis

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• RAW DATA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Unanalyzed data; data not yet subjected to analysis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

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

data; information (a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn)

 Context examples 

The process of generating an image from the raw data, or set of unprocessed measurements, made by an imaging system.

(Optical Image Reconstruction, NCI Thesaurus)

They reanalyzed published results as well as all accessible raw data, both published and unpublished.

(Over 100 Genetic Sites Tied to Schizophrenia, NIH)

The summary-level data are available to the public through the GTEx Portal, and the most recent release of the raw data has been submitted to the Database of Genotypes and Phenotypes (dbGaP), an archive of results from studies that investigate the genomic contributions to phenotypes (physical characteristics or disease states).

(NIH completes atlas of human DNA differences that influence gene expression, National Institutes of Health)

NOTE: This most commonly involves the statistical combination of summary statistics from the various trials, but the term is sometimes also used to refer to the combination of the raw data. [from ICH E9 Glossary]

(Meta-analysis, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)