The role of programming code sharing in improving the transparency of medical research – GWC Mag

Abbasi says that the importance of sharing data and code from research is obvious.1 As epidemiologists, our research involves using large routine healthcare databases, for which data sharing is not a legal possibility. Although data sharing may not be possible, code sharing, in which the programming code used to process and analyse the data is made public, usually is. Encouraging code sharing is important for epidemiological studies.

Proposed benefits include facilitation of direct replication efforts, …