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Informationen zum Autor Mark van der Loo and Edwin de Jonge, Department of Statistical Methods, Statistics Netherlands, The Netherlands Klappentext A comprehensive guide to automated statistical data cleaningThe production of clean data is a complex and time-consuming process that requires both technical know-how and statistical expertise. Statistical Data Cleaning brings together a wide range of techniques for cleaning textual, numeric or categorical data. This book examines technical data cleaning methods relating to data representation and data structure. A prominent role is given to statistical data validation, data cleaning based on predefined restrictions, and data cleaning strategy.Key features:* Focuses on the automation of data cleaning methods, including both theory and applications written in R.* Enables the reader to design data cleaning processes for either one-off analytical purposes or for setting up production systems that clean data on a regular basis.* Explores statistical techniques for solving issues such as incompleteness, contradictions and outliers, integration of data cleaning components and quality monitoring.* Supported by an accompanying website featuring data and R code.This book enables data scientists and statistical analysts working with data to deepen their understanding of data cleaning as well as to upgrade their practical data cleaning skills. It can also be used as material for a course in data cleaning and analyses. Zusammenfassung A comprehensive guide to automated statistical data cleaningThe production of clean data is a complex and time-consuming process that requires both technical know-how and statistical expertise. Statistical Data Cleaning brings together a wide range of techniques for cleaning textual! numeric or categorical data. This book examines technical data cleaning methods relating to data representation and data structure. A prominent role is given to statistical data validation! data cleaning based on predefined restrictions! and data cleaning strategy.Key features:* Focuses on the automation of data cleaning methods! including both theory and applications written in R.* Enables the reader to design data cleaning processes for either one-off analytical purposes or for setting up production systems that clean data on a regular basis.* Explores statistical techniques for solving issues such as incompleteness! contradictions and outliers! integration of data cleaning components and quality monitoring.* Supported by an accompanying website featuring data and R code.This book enables data scientists and statistical analysts working with data to deepen their understanding of data cleaning as well as to upgrade their practical data cleaning skills. It can also be used as material for a course in data cleaning and analyses. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword xi About the Companion Website xiii 1 Data Cleaning 1 1.1 The Statistical Value Chain 1 1.1.1 Raw Data 2 1.1.2 Input Data 2 1.1.3 Valid Data 3 1.1.4 Statistics 3 1.1.5 Output 3 1.2 Notation and Conventions Used in this Book 3 2 A Brief Introduction to R 5 2.1 R on the Command Line 5 2.1.1 Getting Help and Learning R 6 2.2 Vectors 7 2.2.1 Computing with Vectors 9 2.2.2 Arrays and Matrices 10 2.3 Data Frames 11 2.3.1 The Formula-Data Interface 12 2.3.2 Selecting Rows and Columns; Boolean Operators 12 2.3.3 Selection with Indices 13 2.3.4 Data Frame Manipulation:The dplyr Package 14 2.4 Special Values 15 2.4.1 Missing Values 17 2.5 Getting Data into and out of R 18 2.5.1 File Paths in R 19 2.5.2 Formats Provided by Packages 20 2.5.3 Reading Data from a Database 20 2.5.4 Working with Data External to R 21 2.6 Functions 21 2.6.1 Using Functions 22 ...
