In a message dated 4/18/03 1:01:40 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
fharrell@virginia.edu writes:

> What is truly important is that data analysts check their work no matter 
> what they are doing.
> 

This has been a fruitful discussion about doing "scientific" research.  To 
the software issues one can add the general issue of reproducability: data 
availability (even to reviewers), clear description, etc. Following links has 
a nice write-up on this issue. It is likely to be relevant to a wider 
audience using statistical methods.
<A HREF="http://www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger/repro.html">http://www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger/repro.html</A>

Incentives in research/academia may also have something to do with this. For 
this an interesting view (you have to make the connection):
<A HREF="http://www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger/gaps.html">http://www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger/gaps.html</A>

-anupam.

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