data set
study data set
Instances of this class are used in SEPIO to group one or more data items from a particular research study that are relevant as evidence for an assertion. The utility of this class is in allowing the shared provenance of these data items to be more efficiently represented - as things like agent, date, and methods can be described once for the data set and inferred to apply to all individual data items that comprise it.
A data set comprised of data items produced by a single research study.
The set of data output from a study of the frequency of a particular allele in a particular population, which includes the following data (and metadata) items:
{
"ascertainment": "ExAc ascertainment method"
"population": "Non-Finnish European"
"allele": "CAR:CA011797",
"alleleCount": 66706,
"alleleNumber": 1,
"alleleFrequency": 0.00001499,
"homozygousAlleleIndividualCount": 0
}
This collection of data may be described by, but remains distinct from, a 'study finding' statement that summarizes the results in narrative form.
The data items comprising a study data set may include primary measurements, derived calculations, metadata about study participants and methods, or parameters of execution.
A research study is considered broadly to be any scientific activity aimed at answering a research question. Studies can be simple or complex, depending on the scope of the question being explored and the extent of resources deployed in doing so. They may include a full research investigation, a set of experiments, or a single experiment or assay.