Data problems, coding errors…what can be done?

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 2013-04-22

Summary:

This post is by Phil A recent post on this blog discusses a prominent case of an Excel error leading to substantially wrong results from a statistical analysis. Excel is notorious for this because it is easy to add a row or column of data (or intermediate results) but forget to update equations so that [...]

Link:

http://andrewgelman.com/2013/04/17/data-problems-coding-errors-what-can-be-done/

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Statistics and Visualization » Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

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statistical computing

Authors:

Phil

Date tagged:

04/22/2013, 11:36

Date published:

04/17/2013, 14:25