The apparent authenticity of published data can be as dangerous as it is inviting. This guide
points out the main dangers (sampling errors, measurement errors, and invalid or unreliable …

" This monograph is meant to serve as a guide for advanced undergraduates and for beginning
graduate students who face the use of secondary data without any notion of the potential …

… Herbert Jacob, Using Published Data: Errors and Remedies. Sage University Paper series
on Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences, 07-042. Beverly Hills, CA, 1984, 63 pp. …

This paper considers the use of secondary data analysis in educational research. It addresses
some of the promises and potential pitfalls that influence its use and explores a possible …

… Using Published Data: Errors and Remedies Jacob U 43. Bayesian Statistical Inference
luersen D 44. Cluster Analysis Aldenderfer Blashfield D 45. …

It is difficult for organizations introducing and using software inspections to evaluate how
efficient they are. However, it is of practical importance to determine whether they have been …

Results The number of articles searched and rejected by each student ranged from 1 to 50 (median
I 8). Sufficient summary data appeared to be more frequently available for chi-square …

This study investigates the question of reliability among four widely used cross‐national data
sets by constructing an error framework that relates types of errors to uses of the data. The …

Using this exercise, students recompute the values of statistical tests published in journal
articles, and the recomputed values are compared to the published results. My experience with …

The purpose of this article is to review the advantages and disadvantages of using Minimum
Data Set (MDS) data for nursing research, the psychometric characteristics of the MDS 2.0, …