Best Practices in Data Cleaning: A Complete Guide to Everything You Need to Do Before and After Collecting Your Data

Best Practices in Data Cleaning: A Complete Guide to Everything You Need to Do Before and After Collecting Your Data
ISBN-10
1452281041
ISBN-13
9781452281049
Category
Social Science
Pages
296
Language
English
Published
2012-01-10
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Author
Jason W. Osborne

Description

Many researchers jump from data collection directly into testing hypothesis without realizing these tests can go profoundly wrong without clean data. This book provides a clear, accessible, step-by-step process of important best practices in preparing for data collection, testing assumptions, and examining and cleaning data in order to decrease error rates and increase both the power and replicability of results. Jason W. Osborne, author of the handbook Best Practices in Quantitative Methods (SAGE, 2008) provides easily-implemented suggestions that are evidence-based and will motivate change in practice by empirically demonstrating—for each topic—the benefits of following best practices and the potential consequences of not following these guidelines.

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