STATS 810 (Fall 2020) Literature Proseminar, Including Discussions on Responsible Conduct in Research and Scholarship

Instructor: Edward L. Ionides

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Syllabus

Class has moved online only, from October 23.

Reading assignments come from “On Being a Scientist: A Guide to Responsible Conduct in Research: Third Edition,” written by the National Academies Committee on Science, Engineering and Public Policy. A free pdf copy is available online.

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Homework assignments and class notes

• Homework 1. What is responsible conduct in research and scholarship (RCRS)? Why are we discussing it?.

• Homework 2. Building and maintaining healthy mentor/mentee relationships.

• Homework 3. Publication and peer review.

• Homework 4. Academic misconduct.

• Homework 5. Data and the reproducibility of research results.

• Homework 6. Conflicts of interest and conflicts of commitment.

• Homework 7. Collaborative research & Human participants and animal subjects.

• Homework 8. Negligence, mistakes & how to avoid them.

• Homework 9. Internet repositories for collaboration and open-source research: git and GitHub.

• Homework 10. Linux and the open source software movement.

• Homework 11. Parallel statistical computing.

• Homework 12. Statistical computing on greatlakes.

• Homework 13. A workflow for reproducible statistical research: combining Latex and R with knitr

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