On March 23, ENAR held a special invited panel discussion
on Research Ethics in Biostatistics and the Biostatistician's
Role. The chair,
David Banks,
gave an introduction and overview,
after which the panelists
(Larry Kessler,
Keith Baggerly,
and
Roger Peng)
each gave brief presentations touching on
four questions they had been asked to address:
1. What is an investigator's personal responsibility with respect to
research ethics (including reproducibility) in his/her own laboratory?
2. What role, if any, should journals serve in ensuring reproducibility?
3. What is the institutional role?
4. What is the responsibility of federal agencies with respect to
reproducibility and research ethics? How does this differ when
the agency is in the role of the grantor (e.g., NIH) versus the role
of a regulator (e.g., FDA)?
This was followed by a fairly active question and
answer period.
1. My post-session survey
2. Pre-session notes from David Banks
3. Pre-session notes from Larry Kessler
4. Pre-session notes from Keith Baggerly
5. Pre-session notes from Roger Peng
6. Flyer for a course on Reproducible
Research being offered by Victoria Stodden at Columbia, Spring 2011 (this is actually a .docx file, but for some reason IE seems to change the suffix to .zip).
7. Stodden course guidelines
8. Stodden course syllabus
9. Biometric Bulletin vol 28, no 1; Jeff's overview
appears on p.12-14.
WAV files from the session are given below in the order in which they were presented.
1. David Banks Intro and
Overview (6 min, 30 sec), and Larry Kessler Presentation,
17 min, 4 sec; 22.6 Mb
2. Keith Baggerly Presentation,
15 min, 50 sec; 20.9 Mb
3. Roger Peng Presentation,
12 min, 57 sec; 17.1 Mb
4. Panelist Discussion,
in which the panelists tried to address points raised other panelists.
6 min, 28 sec; 8.6 Mb
5. Question and Answer Session with the audience. 33 min, 49 sec; 43.8 Mb