Showing posts with label data cleaning 101. Show all posts
Showing posts with label data cleaning 101. Show all posts

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
 

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