Hi Abigail,
I am forwarding your question to the class list.
See my comments below.
Best,
Miya
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Allen, Abigail <aallen at hbs.edu> wrote:
Hi Miya/Patrick-
Can you provide some additional guidance on what our deliverable for this
replication of others results is.
The purpose of the assignment is to help the other group with their
project. The basic guide for the content of your memo should be that you
evaluate the quality of the replication (e.g. how successful was the group
at replicating the original results? does the "replication package" the
group provided enable you to easily replicate the article's/group's
results?) and provide feedback on the kinds of things that you hope the
reviewers of your project will be giving you. So, yes, this includes
comments and suggestions related to both the r-code (e.g. is it clear and
easy to follow? is it correct?) and extension ideas. Comments and
suggestions should certainly cover methodological issues and can obviously
include substantive issues related to the theories/arguments/etc advanced in
the original article.
Specifically are you looking for us to provide a
feedback report with
comments/suggestions related both to the r-code and extension ideas?
Yes.
Or, are we actually supposed to turn in a report which
has a reproduction
of replicated result (i.e. are we supposed to write our own rcode which
replicates the results they produced) + our suggestions/comments.
It is not necessary to do this.
I assumed the former but just wanted to be sure. J
*Abigail Allen*
*Harvard Business School*
Doctoral Student
Accounting and Control
aallen at
hbs.edu
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Miya Woolfalk
Ph.D. Student
Harvard University
Government and Social Policy