Data Book - Collection and Management of Research Data

This book fills a gap by covering the principles of data and information essential for every researcher. These topics are firmly planted in existing graduate curricula, and covered in the research methods courses required of most master's level programs, yet a comprehensive and authoritative text did not exist until now.

List of contents

Collecting and Managing Research Data

Defining Data and Information

Deciding, Defining, and Documenting Data to be Collected

Data Management Planning

Fundamental Dynamic Aspects of Data

Data Observation and Recording

Good Data Recording Practices Applicable to Man and Machine

Getting Data Into Electronic Format

Data Structures

Data Processing

Designing and Documenting Data Flow and Workflow

Selecting Software for Collecting and Managing Data

The Data Management Quality System

Calculating Time and Cost for Data Collection and Processing

Research Data Security

Data Ownership, Stewardship, and Sharing

Data Archival

Glossary

About the author

Meredith Zozus is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. She has spent more than two decades managing data for research and studying methodology for doing so. She has worked in data management for life sciences, engineering, and biomedical research. She received her undergraduate and master’s degrees in Nuclear Engineering at North Carolina State University, led data management operations at the Duke Clinical Research Institute, and later Clinical Research Informatics at the Duke Translational Medicine Institute. Dr. Zozus received her PhD in Health Informatics at the University of Texas at Houston School of Biomedical Informatics.

Summary

This book fills a gap by covering the principles of data and information essential for every researcher. These topics are firmly planted in existing graduate curricula, and covered in the research methods courses required of most master’s level programs, yet a comprehensive and authoritative text did not exist until now.

Product details

• Authors: Meredith Zozus, Meredith (University of Arkansas for Medica Zozus, Meredith (University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Department of Biomedical Informatics) Zozus, Meredith Nahm Zozus, Meredith Nahm (University of Arkansas for M Zozus
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.07.2017
• EAN: 9781498742245
• ISBN: 978-1-4987-4224-5
• No. of pages: 354
• Series: Chapman & Hall/CRC Interdisciplinary Statistics; Chapman & Hall/CRC Interdiscip
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Basic principles; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > IT; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; MATHEMATICS / Probability & Statistics / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Research & Methodology, REFERENCE / Research, Psychological methodology, Probability & statistics, Databases, Probability and statistics, Research methods: general, COMPUTERS / Database Administration & Management, Databases / Data management