Ethics and reproducible research in statistics & computer science

Fred Boehm
May 23, 2014

IRES Program

IRES Fellows Learning Outcomes

  1. Critically evaluate issues that relate to research ethics that arise in research/scholarship.
  2. Analyze case studies to communicate your understanding of the responsible conduct of research/scholarship.
  3. Apply effective pedagogies in implementing research ethics events.

IRES Fellows Learning Outcomes

  1. Explain policies at the institutional, state, and federal levels that relate to the responsible conduct of research/scholarship.
  2. Apply professional codes of conduct and ethical principles to frame ethical questions, problems, and decisions that arise in research/scholarship.
  3. View yourself as an advocate for research integrity.

Reproducibility and research ethics

What is reproducible research?

What are researchers’ ethical obligations to other researchers?

What are shortcomings or limitations of current tools for reproducible research?

Liu & Pounds’s rctrack: What is it & what does it do?

Liu & Pounds’s rctrack: What is it & what does it do?

Implementing rctrack

Implementing rctrack

Fred’s reproducible research & ethics resource webpage

Fred’s reproducible research & ethics resources

References