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... With continuing support from NSF, the Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT) organized the Workshop on Transparency and Reproducibility of Federal Statistics with the following statement of task: An ad hoc steering committee will organize and conduct a public workshop on key aspects of transparency and reproducibility in federal statistics, in cluding data access, archiving, and documentation, as a follow-on activity to the NSF-funded Forum on Open Science at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
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... Harris-Kojetin, Editors. Panel on Improving Federal Statistics for Policy and Social Science Research Using Multiple Data Sources and State-of-the-Art Estimation Methods, Committee on National Statistics, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education.
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... The agency has been hosting a series of events concerning data, data management, public access to data, reproducibility, and questions that derive from a concern about the integrity of the scientific research process. She noted that this is by necessity a crossdisciplinary issue and that the federal statistical agencies could learn a great deal by including computer scientists in the discussions.
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