"I manage well-meaning account manager folks in an Internet environment where awareness of data entry mistakes is probably higher than most places," wrote Mark Hezinger.
"You might want to interview folks in the credit bureau industry, an industry highly motivated to get it right, and ask them about data entry mistakes".
Gibson admitted a "number of errors" were made by the bank, including basic data entry mistakes, which other people then relied upon.
A report last December by the Social Security Administration's inspector general found that the database is plagued with a 4.1percentt error rate: data entry mistakes, misspellings and name changes involving about 17.8 million records.
The administrators would desire something that could eliminate data entry mistakes.
For research purposes, automated geotagging is preferred over manual geotagging as it saves time, does not require EXIF editing software, and is less prone to data entry mistakes.
Finally, if a tree's growth was greater than 2 cm a year, it was examined for data entry mistakes (e.g., an incorrect decimal).
In order to minimise data entry mistakes, we developed data entry forms that included range checks and missing value alerts.
Descriptive statistics will be used to summarise the data and detect outliers, missing values and data entry mistakes.
Data from field visits, the annual survey/sampling, and clinical histories are collected directly into tablet computers or smart phones to allow real-time access to data and to minimize missing fields and data entry mistakes.
Descriptive statistics such as the minimum, maximum, median and mean for each continuous variable and frequency table for each categorical variable was used to summarise the data as well as detect outliers, data entry mistakes and missing values.
