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Dear MEL professionals, would you please help me out with the odd data? For example, in a survey about low-income parents, the column of age has some strange values, such as 120.

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Snowy Cheng
27 August 2021
Dear MEL professionals, would you please help me out with the odd data? For example, in a survey about low-income parents, the column of age has some strange values, such as 120.

Dear MEL professionals, would you please help me out with the odd data? For example, in a survey about low-income parents, the column of age has some strange values, such as 120.

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ItemCheung@hotmail.com
27 August 2021

Keep up your great work!

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snowy@msn.com
27 August 2021

Ok, I will do it.

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ItemCheung@hotmail.com
27 August 2021

Do not worry. It is common to have abnormal value in a social survey. You may try to use the mean value of age or delete the case.

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