A researcher has completed data entry for a survey of 200 mothers. Before generating frequency distributions for age, education, and exclusive breastfeeding, she discovers several missing codes, inconsistent entries, and values outside the predefined ranges. What should she do before producing the frequency distributions?

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Review and clean the dataset, verify entries, and apply the predefined coding and missing-value rules

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Generate the frequency distributions and resolve the discrepancies when interpreting the results

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Replace all unusual values with the median before generating the frequency distributions

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Proceed with the analysis because frequency distributions are descriptive and therefore not affected by these problems

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