Managing your research data and documentation

"In the behavioral sciences today, there is increasing emphasis on transparency, and the need for research studies to be made replicable. In this book, Kathy R. Berenson presents a straightforward approach to managing and documenting one's data so that other researchers can repeat the stud...

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Main Author: Berenson, Kathy R.,
Other Authors: American Psychological Association,
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, [2018]
Physical Description: xii, 107 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Series: Concise guides to conducting behavioral, health, and social science research series.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Your project files
  • Your data files
  • Your command files
  • Your replication documentation
  • Appendix A: Source data and metadata
  • Appendix B: Working with "tall" data files
  • Appendix C: Data entry
  • Appendix D: Labeling and renaming many variables efficiently
  • Appendix E: Importing data files
  • Appendix F: Merging data files
  • Appendix G: Estimating missing values.