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Coping with Missing, Invalid, and Duplicate Data in R

Learn about the most essential steps of data preparation: Missing value imputation, outlier detection, and duplicate removal.

Intermediate
2h 1m
(10)

Created by Martin Burger

Last Updated Mar 31, 2025

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Coping with Missing, Invalid, and Duplicate Data in R

Learn about the most essential steps of data preparation: Missing value imputation, outlier detection, and duplicate removal.

Intermediate
2h 1m
(10)

Created by Martin Burger

Last Updated Mar 31, 2025

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Data preparation is part of nearly any data analytics project, therefore the skills are highly valuable. In this course, Coping with Missing, Invalid, and Duplicate Data in R, you will learn the main steps of data preparation. First, you will learn how to handle duplicate data. Next, you will discover that missing values prevent a lot of R functions from working properly, therefore you are limited in your R toolset as long as you do not take care of all these NA's. Finally, you will explore outlier and invalid data detection and how they can introduce bias into your analysis. When you’re finished with this course, you will understand why missing values, outliers, and duplicates are problematic, how to detect them, and how to remove them from the dataset.

Coping with Missing, Invalid, and Duplicate Data in R
Intermediate
2h 1m
(10)
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Martin Burger - Pluralsight course - Coping with Missing, Invalid, and Duplicate Data in R
Martin Burger
18 courses 4.6 author rating 181 ratings

Martin is a trained biostatistician, programmer, consultant and data science enthusiast. His main objective: Explaining data science in a straightforward way. You can find his latest work over at: r-tutorials.com

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