Basic Concepts

The goal of the reproducibility activity is

• to verify provenance of all data sources,

• to verify the availability of all computer code to produce analysis files from data sources, and to produce tables, figures, and in-text numbers from analysis files,

• to verify that the available code actually reproduces the analysis files, tables, figures, and in-text numbers.

We therefore need to define a few concepts:

• what is a data source, and how can one verify its provenance?

• what is analysis data?

• how can we verify computational reproducibility?

The subsequent chapters will explore each of these in additional detail.