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Record Nr.

UNINA9910583372603321

Autore

Smalheiser Neil R.

Titolo

Data literacy : how to make your experiments robust and reproducible / / Neil Smalheiser, MD, PhD, Associate Professor in Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Psychiatric Institute, University of Illinois School of Medicine, USA

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam : , : Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier, , [2017]

�2017

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvii, 261 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Collana

Gale eBooks

Disciplina

006.312

Soggetti

Data mining

Research - Data processing

Medicine - Research - Data processing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

A. Designing your experiment -- B. Getting a "feel" for your data -- C. Statistics (without much math!) -- D. Make your data go farther.

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides an overview of the basic concepts and skills involved in handling scientific data, and examines the processes that are necessary when carrying out a scientific study and some of the factors that make a study robust and reproducible. Experimental design, data cleansing and preparation, statistical analysis, data management, and reporting are among the topics discussed.