In <[email protected]>, on 04/15/2012 at 12:54 AM, Gabe Goldberg <[email protected]> said:
>http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=secret-computer-code-threatens-science How about a compromise; make code review part of the peer review process but also attempt to reproduce the results of the analysis with different software. >But not saying what to do when results compare unequal. Accepted practice is to report that as a failure of reproducibility and to encourage researchers to investigate the causes of the failure. The issue isn't limited to data analysis and is much older than digital computers. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
