Observation (disambiguation)

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Observation is sensing and assimilating the knowledge of a phenomenon into a framework of previous knowledge and ideas.

Observation may also refer to:

• Observation in auditing, a procedure to obtain audit evidence.
• Observation tower
• Observation deck
• Observer (special relativity) a specialized meaning of the concept that physicists use
• Observation car (often abbreviated to observation), a type of railroad passenger car
• Watchful waiting (also referred to as observation), an approach to a medical problem in which time is allowed to pass before further testing or therapy is pursued
• Medical observation
• Observations and Measurements, an information model and data transfer standard
• An empirically obtained random variate in statistics
• A realization of a random variable (a unit of a sample), in statistics