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Creating and Verifying Data Sets with Excel
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Accurate data entry and analysis can be deceptively labor-intensive and time-consuming. Creating and Verifying Data Sets with Excel is a focused, easy-to-read guide that gives readers the wherewithal to make use of a remarkable set of data tools tucked within Excel—tools most researchers are entirely unaware of. Robert E. McGrath’s book is the first to focus exclusively on Excel as a data entry system. It incorporates a number of learning tools such as screenshots, text boxes that summarize key points, examples from across the social sciences, tips for creating professional-looking tables, and questions at the end of each chapter. Providing practical strategies to improve and ease the processes of data entry, creation and analysis, this step-by-step guide is a brief, but invaluable resource for both students and researchers.


 
1. Why This Book?
 
2. Software Options for Entering Data
 
3. An Introduction to Excel
 
4. Data Transformations
 
5. Data Entry and Verification
 
6. Data Import and Verification
 
7. Exporting to Statistical Software
 
8. Final Thoughts

A very detailed text that offers a great deal of information at a high level of study and somewhat removed from the undergraduate window of practice

Mr Samuel Messam
Sport, Bradford College
June 10, 2014
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Key features
KEY FEATURES:
  • The only book written exclusively on the use of Excel as a data entry system
  • Provides concise strategies to ease the task of data creation and analysis
  • Guidance on creating professional-looking tables
  • Frequent tips to summarize key points
  • End-of-chapter Check Your Understanding sections to verify comprehension