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What experts say about Information Quality: The Potential of Data and Analytics to Generate Knowledge:

A glance at the statistics shelves of any technical library will reveal that most books focus narrowly on the details of data analytic methods. The same is true of almost all statistics teaching. This volume will help to rectify that oversight. It will provide readers with insight into and understanding of other key parts of empirical analysis, parts which are vital if studies are to yield valid, accurate, and useful conclusions.

David Hand

Imperial College, London, UK

There is an important distinction between data and information. Data become information only when they serve to inform, but what is the potential of data to inform? With the work Kenett and Shmueli have done, we now have a general framework to answer that question. This framework is relevant to the whole analysis process, showing the potential to achieve higher‐quality information at each step.

John Sall

SAS Institute, Cary, NC, USA

The authors have a rare quality: being able to present deep thoughts and sound approaches in a way practitioners can feel comfortable and understand when reading their work and, at the same time, researchers are compelled to think about how they do their work.

Fabrizio Ruggeri

Consiglio Nazionale delle RicercheIstituto di Matematica Applicata e Tecnologie Informatiche, Milan, Italy

No amount of technique can make irrelevant data fit for purpose, eliminate ...

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