| Article ID: | iaor201222 |
| Volume: | 34 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 31 |
| End Page Number: | 37 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2012 |
| Journal: | Teaching Statistics |
| Authors: | Richards Kate, Davies Neville |
| Keywords: | statistics: sampling |
This article tackles the problem of what should be done with real textual data that are contaminated by errors of recording, particularly when the data contain words that are misspelt, unintentionally or otherwise.