Coding conventions for representing information
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Methods of coding information and representing it in the form of data are rarely discussed outside of software manuals and introductory courses in statistical analysis. This is a shame, as the methods used for coding are very important for analysis and sharing data between different software packages (for example, spreadsheet, statistical and graphical packages). The purpose of this paper is to provide a method for coding that accurately represents information in an explicit way allowing this information to be shared between software packages and researchers.
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