Questions tagged [reproducible-research]

Research practice of making full experimental description, entire collected data, and all the data analysis scripts publicly available, so that the published results can be reproduced elsewhere.

Reproducible research is any scientific finding or result that can be independently replicated based on the methods detailed by the original investigator. It is a cornerstone of the scientific method. Reproducible research for statistical methods involves clearly describing the assumptions, approaches, and tests used for any data analysis. Statistical methods can also be used to assess how reproducible an original set of findings was given the similarity to its independent replications.

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Hosting options for publicly available data

So you've decided to support the idea of reproducible research and want to make your data available online for people to see and use. The question is, where do you host it? My first inclination is of course the private webspace I have on a…
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Resources to write a statistical analysis plan

Following ICH-E9 guideline on statistical principles for clinical trials, A statistical analysis plan is a document that contains a more technical and detailed elaboration of the principal features of the analysis described in the protocol, and…
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Licensing of analytical code and data - which license to use, and what issues?

Not sure if this belongs to CrossValidated, Computational Science, or something else entirely. I've got some code and data that's going into a publication, but I'd like to make said code and data publicly available so that the analysis can be…
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Is there a quote like this from some statistician?

I think, I read this quote some where: For every field "x" there exists a field "computational x" Has anyone else read this or remembers reading anything close to this? If I remember correctly, it was by Dr. Jan de Leeuw. Can anyone please tell if…
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