Handheld Computers: A Feasible Alternative to Paper Forms for Field Data Collection.

The writers compared data gathered with paper forms to data collected with handheld computer-based forms in a field observation study of alcohol purchase attempts at 47 community festivals in a large metropolitan area. They noted agreement of over 95% between data collected with paper forms and dat...

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Publicado en:Evaluation Review Vol. 27; no. 2; pp. 165 - 179
Autores principales: Fletcher, Linda A., Erickson, Darin J., Toomey, Traci L.
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Sage Publications Inc. April 2003
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