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2018

Conducting reproducible research with Docker (Part 3 of 3)

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In the last two entries in this tutorial series I showed you how to use Docker to maintain a reproducible environment for conducting statistical analyses. Conducting reproducible reseach is primarily about scientific honesty, transparency, and the maintenance of high scientific standards. However, the choice to use Docker for reproducible research also has an awesome side-benefit: the ability to run docker containers remotely on cloud servers. In this tutorial I’ll show you how to run your docker containers on a virtual cloud “workstation” using DigitalOcean.

Conducting reproducible research with Docker (Part 1 of 3)

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In scientific research, reproducibility is a necessary (though not sufficient) condition for validity. But conducting reproducible research is hard! Sadly, many psychological studies fail tests of empirical reproducibility. Unfortunately, there’s no software package that can solve the set of structural and statistical issues likely at the root of those non-replications.