When reporting research findings, scientists document the steps they followed so that others
can verify and build upon the research. When those steps have been described in sufficient …

One of the pathways by which the scientific community confirms the validity of a new
scientific discovery is by repeating the research that produced it. When a scientific effort fails …

All the Tools for Gathering and Analyzing Data and Presenting Results Reproducible
Research with R and RStudio, Second Edition brings together the skills and tools needed for …

Background Microbial inhabitants of soils are important to ecosystem and planetary
functions, yet there are large gaps in our knowledge of their diversity and ecology. The …

What should we do to raise the quality of signal processing publications to an even higher
level? We believe it to be crucial to maintain the precision in describing our work in …

As computational researchers increasingly make their results available in a reproducible
way, and often outside the traditional journal publishing mechanism, questions naturally …

Among empirical software engineering studies, those based on data retrieved from
development repositories (such as those of source code management, issue tracking or …

Morphological Component Analysis (MCA) of signals and images is an ambitious and
important goal in signal processing; successful methods for MCA have many far-reaching …

The area of target tracking is a mature field with a great many algorithms having been
developed over the years. Although this means that algorithms exist to suit a large number of …

Modern science is built on systematic experimentation and observation. Today's form of
communicating scientific results with written articles is the foundation we build our work on …