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

Many researchers jump straight from data collection to data analysis without realizing how analyses and hypothesis tests can go profoundly wrong without clean data. This book provides a clear, step-by-step process for examining and cleaning data in order to decrease error rates and increase both the power and replicability of results. Jason W. Osborne, author of Best Practices in Quantitative Methods (SAGE, 2008) provides easily implemented suggestions that are research-based and will motiv...