Re: st: do-file hygeine

[Michael McCulloch <mm@pinest.org>]

Fabulous. Many thanks for the suggestions from Nick and David and Kit.
Michael

> Also perhaps (not yet seen by me, but I keep meaning to check it out)
>
> M. Schwab, M. Karrenbach, and J. Claerbout, "Making scientific 
> computations reproducible," Computing in Science & Engineering, vol. 
> 2, no. 6, pp. 61--67, November-December 2000.
>
>
> David Radwin wrote:
>
> > In my opinion, more fundamental than the mechanics of managing 
> > do-files is the philosophy that your work should be replicable by 
> > another researcher in the sense that if she were to use the same 
> > data and methods. In the specific case of Stata, that would ideally 
> > mean the same dataset, do-files, and programs could be used to 
> > create exactly the same results, including such niceties as using 
> > the -set seed- command, but the replication principle goes far 
> > beyond that.
> >
> > A side benefit of this philosophy is that it may force you to be 
> > more explicit and thoughtful about your data analysis decisions.
> >
> > For a nice discussion of replication in the social sciences, see 
> > Gary King, "Replication, Replication," PS: Political Science and 
> > Politics, followed by comments from nineteen authors and a 
> > response, Vol. XXVIII, No. 3 (September, 1995): pp. 443-499 and 
> > http://gking.harvard.edu/projects/repl.shtml .
> >
> > David
> >
> > At 11:08 AM -0700 9/27/08, Michael McCulloch wrote:
> >
> > >  I'd appreciate any pointers toward good do-file hygeine, i.e. 
> > > management practices to maximize good record keeping, with 
> > > resulting least likelihood of overlooking important details.
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