There is much talk about open science lately. One aspect of this movement towards more transparent and reproducible science is the open sharing of data and computer code. As highlighted in a recent article in Nature, Github is increasingly being used by scientists to do just that! Github in science Git is a powerful distributed version control tool that can
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In a previous post, I highlighted a symposium that was held to improve the reproducibility of biomedical research. The published report includes a description of the causes and factors associated with poor reproducibility; these are summarized below. Key causes and factors linked to poor reproducibility False discovery rate and small sample sizes. The false discovery rate is the expected proportion
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Earlier this year, I was asked to review a manuscript for the Journal of Neurophysiology. I was struck by the use of the standard error of the mean (SEM) to summarize data variability, the selective reporting of exact (e.g., p=0.067) and non-exact (p<0.05) p-values and the interpretation of non-significant results (e.g., p=0.067) as statistically significant. Because the Journal of Neurophysiology
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In the last post, we learned how to control the precision of the number we print as well as the number of spaces these numbers take up. The last thing we need to learn to output nice data tables is how to align text and numbers when we use .format(). Aligning text and numbers with .format() We previously learned to
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In the last post, we learned how to use .format() to improve the quality of our print() statements. You may have noticed that we were still printing lots of values after the decimal point, more than are necessary. In this post we will learn to control the presentation of numerical values. Representing and adjusting numbers using .format() With the .format()
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In the last post, our program printed out the computed BMI with lots of precision (24.489795918367346) and no additional information. In hindsight, it would have been more informative to tell the user that A weight of 75 kg and a height of 1.75 meters equal a MBI if 24.5. In the next few posts we will learn how to create
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