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Best Practices for Organizing your Data Analysis

by Audrey Schnell  Leave a Comment

There is a lot of skill needed to perform good data analyses. It is not just about statistical knowledge (though more statistical knowledge is always helpful). Organizing your data analysis, and knowing how to do that, is a key skill.  [Read more…] about Best Practices for Organizing your Data Analysis

Tagged With: best practices, Data Analysis, organization, syntax

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Best Practices for Data Preparation

by Audrey Schnell  1 Comment

If you’ve been doing data analysis for long, you’ve probably had the ‘AHA’ moment where you realized statistical practice is a craft and not just a science. As with any craft, there are best practices that will save you a lot of pain and suffering and elevate the quality of your work. And yet, it’s likely that no one may have taught you these. I know I never had a class on this. [Read more…] about Best Practices for Data Preparation

Tagged With: best practices, data cleaning, data preparation, Missing Data, syntax

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Using Predicted Means to Understand Our Models

by Jeff Meyer 

The expression “can’t see the forest for the trees” often comes to mind when reviewing a statistical analysis. We get so involved in reporting “statistically significant” and p-values that we fail to explore the grand picture of our results.

It’s understandable that this can happen.  We have a hypothesis to test. We go through a multi-step process to create the best model fit possible. Too often the next and last step is to report which predictors are statistically significant and include their effect sizes.

[Read more…] about Using Predicted Means to Understand Our Models

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