Part II

Preparing and Cleaning Data

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webextra Check out an article on discrete and continuous probability distributions at www.dummies.com/extras/statisticsforbigdata.

In this part …

check.png Getting your data ready for analysis

check.png Becoming familiar with popular computer file formats

check.png Understanding how to test for normality

check.png Checking out techniques for dealing with missing or incomplete data

check.png Knowing what to do about outliers

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