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Data cleaning: detecting, diagnosing, and editing data abnormalities

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Van den Broeck, Jan, Argeseanu Cunningham, Solveig, Eeckels, Roger, Herbst, Kobus·2005·PLoS Medicine

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Inlier: Data value falling within

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Crossref · 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020267

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Research works printed but not linked: 4

  1. International Conference on Harmonization Guideline for good clinical practice: ICH harmonized tripartite guideline 1997 Geneva International Conference on Harmonization Available: http://www.ich.org/MediaServer.jser?@_ID=482&@_MODE=GLB. Accessed 29 July 2005
  2. Armitage P Berry G Statistical methods in medical research, 2nd ed 1987 Oxford Blackwell Scientific Publications 559
  3. Snedecor GW Cochran WG Statistical methods, 7th ed 1980 Ames (Iowa) Iowa State University Press 507
  4. Allison PD Missing data 2001 Thousand Oaks (California) Sage Publications 93

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Authors
Van den Broeck, J., Argeseanu Cunningham, S., Eeckels, R., & Herbst, K.
Affiliations
University of Pennsylvania (US)
Venue
PLoS Medicine
Published
2005-09-06
Volume
2
Issue
10
Pages
e267
ISSN
  • 1549-1277 (ISSN-L)
  • 1549-1676
OpenAlex
W1971935224
Cited by
446
References
18
Citations by year
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FWCI
3.71
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • PLoS Medicine (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
Funders
Wellcome Trust (063009)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Management Science and Operations Research › Data Quality and Management
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Machine Learning and Data Classification
Keywords
data cleaning, data quality, data anomalies, outlier detection, data editing, data validation
MeSH terms
Ethics, Professional, Humans, Peer Review, Statistics as Topic, Reproducibility of Results, Epidemiologic Studies, Guidelines as Topic

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