Because data may often be incomplete, inconsistent, and inaccurate, it is important to ____ the data.

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On closer inspection of the data, you find that a patient record may have missing data (gender, city, etc) or the data was inconsistently recorded (5 digit vs 9 digit zip codes), or there were duplicate records (two or more for the same patient) or perhaps even incorrect information (insurance information out of date or just plain wrong). It is important to clean up your data so that any analysis of the data will yield reliable (and useful!) results.

Because Data May Often Be Incomplete, Inconsistent, and Inaccurate, It