6 Doing Quantitative Research Some Tricks of the Trade
6.1 Introduction and Chapter Overview
Things seldom go as smoothly as they have done in this book in real-life statistical analysis. The reason is obvious: I made the required data preparation in advance. To shed more light on such preparation, Sections 6.2–6.4 handle various aspects of statistical analysis having mostly to do with data groundwork before taking on the later descriptive, associational, and inferential analyses. Since doing data preparation is the main purpose in these three sections, I include the statistical commands in the main text.
Sections 6.2 and 6.3 show how to create new variables based on existing variables, whereas Section 6.4 takes ...
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