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Re: st: Last modification to a data file


From   Louis Boakye-Yiadom <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Last modification to a data file
Date   Tue, 27 Nov 2007 10:35:33 +0000 (GMT)

Many thanks!

Louis

--- Maarten buis <[email protected]> wrote:

> --- Louis Boakye-Yiadom <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Thanks. I was, however, hoping there is a way of
> > knowing the actual (or kind of) modification
> mdade.
> 
> The way to document the modifications you make to a 
> data file is to make these modifications in a 
> do-file, and save the original data and the do-file,
> 
> and not the modified data. Whenever you need the 
> modified data, you first run the do-file (I often 
> call that do-file dataprep.do)
> 
> This is always a good idea, not only because that 
> way you keep a complete record of all changes you 
> made, but also because in a real data-analysis 
> project everybody makes mistakes during data-
> preparation. If you keep the original data and the 
> do-file that made the modifications, than correcting
> 
> the mistake is often matter of seconds. If you did 
> not store the do-file, it is often a matter of days,
> 
> and if you did not store the original data, all is 
> lost.
> 
> -- Maarten
> 
> -----------------------------------------
> Maarten L. Buis
> Department of Social Research Methodology
> Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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> 1081 HV Amsterdam
> The Netherlands
> 
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> 
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