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H. J. FoxwellCreating Good Datahttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6103-3_4

4. Planning Your Data Collection and Analysis

Harry J. Foxwell1 
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Fairfax, VA, USA
 

There is as yet insufficient data for a meaningful answer.

—COSMIC AC [1]

Chapter 2 emphasized that data types are classified according to their purpose, and Chapter 3 cautioned you about the myriad ways that measurements can be represented. Recall that the general purpose of data analysis is to describe some phenomenon, to explore some potentially informative relationships among the data items, and to model and predict the behavior of that phenomenon. And the inception of your inspiration to study it in the first place implies that you have some sense of what might ...

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