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Re: st: Data Entry
Double entry verification is a feature of Epidata. If you cannot
afford that, I strongly recommend two-person 100% read-back; one
person reads the entered-data aloud and the second checks the
original (or vice versa). A child can do the speaking and it goes
very fast.
-Steve
On Aug 6, 2008, at 2:37 PM, [ISO-8859-1] Eduardo Palencia Herrej�n
wrote:
You are probably right, Nick, but when data must be introduced by a
couple of persons, as is the case, direct data entry into the same
Stata file becomes problematic. I think the best solution could be a
friendly form (Access? Epidata?), checking the data at its entry, and
saving it in a file to be imported to Stata using a do file.
The data I need to analize are quite simple: most of them are daily
counts of activity in an ICU.
More help would be welcomed.
Best regards,
Eduardo
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Hospital "Infanta Leonor", Madrid
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2008/8/5 Nick Cox <[email protected]>:
First off, "data entry" may not mean exactly the same to all.
Does that mean that you -- or someone else -- is typing data directly
into a program?
(i.e. data do not already exist as some file or files)
Does that mean that data values are checked at time of input and
users
are prompted immediately for unacceptable values? If the latter, then
you may well need something outside Stata.
Otherwise, my position on this on this is eccentric: I like using
Stata
for data entry into Stata. I then have no problems of file
readability,
conversion, etc.
A simple example is trying to re-create problems mentioned on
Statalist
with example data that people give in their postings. Some
combination
of data editor, do-file editor, and -split- usually gets their
examples
into Stata without undue effort.
Nick
[email protected]
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