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Database Construction and Sampling

Author(s): D. Timothy Gerber1, David M. Reineke1

University of Wisconsin

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Creating your own database is an excellent way for students to learn the trials and tribulations of data collection and management. Construction of three simple databases using a spreadsheet is described here and basic summary statistics are…

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Creating your own database is an excellent way for students to learn the trials and tribulations of data collection and management. Construction of three simple databases using a spreadsheet is described here and basic summary statistics are provided.

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Version 1.0 - published on 16 Aug 2024 doi:10.25334/JKJW-C871 - cite this

Keywords

  1. databases
  2. data management
  3. data collection
  4. data ethics
  5. data integrity

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Overview

Creating your own database is an excellent way for students to learn the trials and tribulations of data collection and data management. It provides an opportunity to discuss etheical issues in data collection as well as data integrity. Furthermore, students will see that data in the real world does not always present itself as neatly as it appears in textbooks Web-based databases, but that it needs to be organized, carefully labeled, and proofread.

Simple Database Construction Using Local Sources of Data

To best understand how information is organized in a database, students need to see firsthand how they are constructed. Construction of three simple databases using a spreadsheet is described here and basic summary statistics are provided for each. Recommendations for building simple databases using a computer spreadsheet and the statistical analysis of its data are given.

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Fundamental Mathematical Concepts

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Victorian polymath: geographer, meteorologist, tropical explorer, founder of differential psychology, inventor of fingerprint identification, pioneer of statistical correlation and regression, convinced hereditarian, eugenicist, proto-geneticist, half-cousin of Charles Darwin and best-selling author.