Thursday, 16 August 2012

Data Cleaning (draft entry)

My next post will be about Data Cleaning. I am not the expert on this but I know few things. One simple way  to do this is to compare data entered by 2 different people. The command in SPSS is called

UPDATE FILE

Here is an example from UCLA site:

update file = "D:\person1.sav"
/in = flag1
/file = "D:\person2.sav"
/by all.
exe.
 
More valuable information in this pdf. 
http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/sas/library/nesug99/ss123.pdf
 

Need to update this blog!! 

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