Author(s):
D. Timothy Gerber, David M. Reineke
From the Biological ESTEEM collection
ESTEEM Category
Biometrics
Description
To best understand how information is organized in a database, students need to see first hand how they are constructed. Construction of three simple databases using a spreadsheet is described here and basic summary statistics are provided for each. Recommendations for building simple databases using a computer spreadsheet and the statistical analysis of its data are given.
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D. Timothy Gerber, David M. Reineke, "Simple Database Construction Using Local Sources of Data," Convergence (December 2006)