This paper proposes a procedure to execute external source codes from LATEX document and include the calculation outputs in resulting Portable Document Format (pdf) file automatically. It integrates programming tools into writing tool facilitate production of reproducible research. In our proposed approach LATEX-based scientific notebook user can easily invoke any language or command-line progr...

T he scientific research paper remains the main mode of sharing scientific information. Two key aspects contribute to the unabated success of this format, despite the myriad possibilities for new ways to share research in an online world: Independent validation by peer review and the juxtaposition of research results—presented in figures, tables, and videos—with the authors’ textual interpretat...

F unctional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) measures neural activity indirectly via the changes in the blood-oxygenation-leveldependent (BOLD) signal. It has been widely used by cognitive neuroscientists and psychologists to examine the neural correlates of higher cognitive functions in humans, such as decision-making, emotion regulation, social interactions and consciousness. Over the years,...

Reproducibility of economic research has attracted considerable attention in recent years. So far, the discussion has focused on reproducibility of empirical analyses. This paper addresses a further aspect of reproducibility, the reproducibility of computational experiments. We examine the current situation in econometrics and derive a set of guidelines from our findings. To illustrate how comp...

In the first ‘Wavelets and Statistics’ conference proceedings 1, our group published ‘Wavelab and Reproducible Research’, in which we advocated using the internet for publication of software and data so that research results could be duplicated by others. Much has happened in the last decade that bears on the notion of reproducibility, and we will review our experience. We will also describe a ...

These notes are an informal, first installment in an ongoing project to develop a convenient template for computational experimentation in econometrics. The approach is illustrated by means of an example based on some current research with Steve Portnoy on improving the speed of quantile regression algorithms. The computations are carried out in splus, but similar techniques could be adapted fo...