The perils of data misreporting

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 85-88

  Lorence, Daniel P ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA COLLECTION; INFORMATION MANAGERS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; QUALITY ASSESSMENT;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DATA REDUCTION; DECISION MAKING; ERROR ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; PUBLIC POLICY; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

DATA ACQUISITION;

EID: 4444274436     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/948383.948385     Document Type: Article

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