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Opinion: Should journals require authors to submit raw statistical output al...
Paper Discussion
Some people argue journals should mandate raw statistical output files for every empirical submission. This would improve reproducibility, but also adds heavy submission overhead. What trade‑offs do you see for such a mandatory policy?
Donald Thomas, Dennis Campbell and 23 others4 Comments-
Mandatory raw stats output would greatly support independent result verification.
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File size and privacy constraints can make raw outputs impractical for certain study types.
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Maybe tiered requirements: strict for small datasets, simplified for large sensitive datasets.
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Training authors to properly organise statistical outputs would itself impose learning cost.
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