Data acquisition and preprocessing in studies on humans: What is not taught in statistics classes?

American Statistician

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 235-241

  Zhu, Yeyi ^a   Hernandez, Ladia M ^a   Mueller, Peter ^a   Dong, Yongquan ^a   Forman, Michele R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Applied statistics courses; Data cleaning; Data code book; Data collection; Data dictionary; Quality control; Statistical education

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901788620     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: 15372731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00031305.2013.842498     Document Type: Article

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