In addition to working with national and state agencies on risk assessment, outcomes research, and information management, MCHERDC provides consulting services for data analysis, reporting, data management and data services.
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| Data Analysis, Statistical Modeling and Reporting: | |
| Analytical reports: | |
| These include statistical analysis of data, text reports containing detailed methods, results, and conclusions sections; geographical information systems maps and interpretations; and longitudnal analysis capabilities. | |
| Analytical Reports, tabular and graphical: | |
| These include statistical analysis of data; geographical information systems maps; and longitudinal analysis. |
Data Analysis and Descriptive Reporting |
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| Data Warehousing: | |
| Descriptive geograpical information systems reports (density and count maps by geographical divisions), remote access to secure data, and access to high power servers. | |
| Data Warehousing Express: | |
| Descriptive reports (tabular and graphical), remote access to data. | |
| Data Warehousing Complete: | |
| Includes development, maintenance, hosting and operation of a data warehouse including data modeling and architecture. |
Data Management |
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| Data merging (Deterministic and Probabilistic): | |
| High quality linkage of data is an important step prior to analysis. we can leverage sophisticated hardware and software resources to maximize the number of records matched even with data that has errors, missing values, and poor quality control. | |
| Data merging (Deterministic) | |
| Depending on the data, deterministic linkage may provide sufficient matching for analytical purposes. | |
| Data cleaning and profiling: | |
| We have the ability to fix out-of-range values, impute missing data, and provide a report on each and every variable ina dataset. Reports include maximum and minimum values, most common value, and the range of values in graphical and quantitative formats. | |
| Database and data dictionary creation: | |
| Organization of a database depends on a comprehensive description of the elements it contains. |
Data Services |
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| Development, hosting, maintenance, and operation of web-based data collection systems: | |
| These front-end services provide not only a web presence, but also proper setup to facilitate data collection with fewer chance of errors. Data can be structured to maximize potential for analysis in the future. | |
| Manual Entry of data into database structures: | |
| This includes data quality and integrity suggestions for collection of data. |
