Talk:Statistical unit

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There are examples, but how about a clear example of a unit? It mentions opinion polling: is each individual polled a "unit"? In medical testing, is each patient a "unit"? 71.127.0.211 15:45, 2 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Statistical unit and Unit (statistics) seem to be talking about the same thing, so it would make sense to merge them. But under which title? Qwfp (talk) 17:15, 14 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I created the "unit (statistics)" article today, but now that I became aware of this article I decided to merge under this title immediately. Skbkekas (talk) 21:02, 14 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]