... ADMINISTRATIVE DATA Matching and Cleaning Administrative Data Robert M Goerge and Bong Joo Lee ix 197 x CONTENTS Access and Confidentiality Issues with Administrative Data Henry E Brady, Susan A Grand, ... matching and cleaning of administrative data; (2) issues of access and confidentiality; (3) problems in measuring employment and income with administrative data compared to survey data; and (4) ... reform evaluation and hence assume special importance in datacollection They find that there often are differences in administrative and survey data reports of employment and income and that the...
... Summary of variables, datacollection methods and instruments, types and timings of data collected Variables Instrument Data collected Level anddata source Time period Structural and functional characteristics ... Helsinki, Finland Authors’ contributions The study was conceived by MPE, JJF, MJ, NS, JMG, ME, GH, and MH The study was run by SH and MPE with data handling andanalyses by SH, ES, JP, and NS, and ongoing ... and standard deviations of scores for team function and organisational behaviour measures, for general and diabetes specific measures and illness sickness absence and intention to leave GPs and...
... the analysis of data collected by their applications and services to improve their products With the rise of large online services, massive amounts of data are being produced Known as Big Data, ... Companies depend on the data produced by their applications and services to understand how their products can be improved By analyzing this data, they can identify important trends and properties about ... response to the problem of managing and analyzing Big Data, much work has been done in the area of stream processing Instead of storing datasets in a database and running timeconsuming queries...
... B Workgroup We have established an international workgroup for the collectionandanalysis of RT and protease sequences anddata from persons infected with non-B HIV-1 subtypes Currently, the ... drugs and certain combinations, there are insufficient data, even in subtype B HIV-1 Worldwide collaboration, using common datacollection instruments and uniform protocols, is essential to the analysis ... subtypes.[15] The collected data are intended to be publicly available, and can serve as a reference dataset and as a watch list for resistance surveillance programs and epidemiologic studies (see...
... I Preliminaries 1 Data Structures and Algorithms 1.1 A Philosophy of Data Structures 1.1.1 The Need for Data Structures 1.1.2 Costs and Benefits 1.2 Abstract Data Types andData Structures 1.3 ... relationship between data items, abstract data types, anddata structures The ADT defines the logical form of the data type The data structure implements the physical form of the data type given data structure ... inserting a data item into the data structure, deleting a data item from the data structure, and finding a specified data item Quantify the resource constraints for each operation Select the data structure...
... I Preliminaries 1 Data Structures and Algorithms 1.1 A Philosophy of Data Structures 1.1.1 The Need for Data Structures 1.1.2 Costs and Benefits 1.2 Abstract Data Types andData Structures 1.3 ... relationship between data items, abstract data types, anddata structures The ADT defines the logical form of the data type The data structure implements the physical form of the data type given data structure ... inserting a data item into the data structure, deleting a data item from the data structure, and finding a specified data item Quantify the resource constraints for each operation Select the data structure...
... obtained from the WHO/UNAIDS database [9] The data from the various data sources were merged into one file at the country level for analysis The variables in the data set included the following ... Analytic method Two approaches were used for analysis: data mining using classification and regression trees (CART) and standard statistical analyses using ordinary least squares regression We chose ... purpose were Botswana, Swaziland, Thailand, and Zimbabwe These four countries were selected on the basis of 1) high levels of HIV/AIDS prevalence rates and 2) the presence of data for the potential...
... intensive and standardized datacollection approaches within a larger clinic observational database presented us with a unique opportunity to assess the quality of datacollection in the clinic database ... use and interpretation of data derived from routine HIV observational databases for research and audit, and they highlight the need for ongoing regular validation of key data items in these databases ... research cohort and clinic databases was 24.1 (20.5-28.2) and 13.2 (10.8-16.2), respectively, and 10.4 (9.1-11.9) for the 1233 patients in the clinic database This represents a 1.8- and 2.3-fold...
... tree height = axis persists to top of tree Datacollection Indexing information on the field data sheets Data sheets should be prepared with layout and treatment information included: replicate ... on the data sheet should be used for each experimental unit (usually a tree) Measurements such as height and diameter are put in columns across the data sheet after the indexing columns Data sheet ... 1 * * 1 4 * * 1 1.1 Check the data !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There will always be mistakes in the data! Mistakes arise at different stages of the operation Read back the data from the computer screen,...
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... well-known in dataanalysis (Chandon and Pinson (1971)) The motivation for using this similarity instead of the traditional Euclidean-based distance is twofold: (a) it is self-normalised, and (b) it ... References BERG, C CHRISTENSEN, J.P.R and RESSEL, P (1984): Harmonic Analysis on Semigroups: Theory of Positive Definite and Related Functions, Springer CHANDON, J.L and PINSON, S (1981): Analyse Typologique ... into training and test sets and normalized to minimum and maximum feature values (Min-Max) or standard deviation (Std-Dev) These experiments were run on a computer with a P4, 2.8 GHz and 1G in Ram...
... for discrimination of mixed data, Biometrics, 48, 497-506 Identification of Noisy Variables for Nonmetric and Symbolic Data in Cluster Analysis Marek Walesiak and Andrzej Dudek Wroclaw University ... interval data differs in steps and 2: A symbolic data array containing n objects and m symbolic interval variables is a starting point Identification of Noisy Variables for Nonmetric and Symbolic Data ... motions and parallaxes for the full set of sources This leads to a distinction for the data processing between early mission data, consisting of the spectra and positions, and late mission data, ...
... classification and is pervasive in observational data, the techniques of ultrametric analysisand p-adic geometry are at ones disposal for identifying and exploiting ultrametricity A p-adic encoding of data ... ultrametric spaces, and ultrametricity is a pervasive property of observational data, and by Murtagh (2004a) this offers computational advantages and a well understood basis for developping data processing ... is a collection of data sets for testing clustering algorithms Each data set represents a certain problem that arbitrary clustering algorithms shall be able to handle when facing real world data...
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