Computational Reproducibility Assessments: Summary

Authors
Affiliations

Ms Amy Heather

Peninsula Collaboration for Health Operational Research and Data Science (PenCHORD), University of Exeter Medical School

Associate Professor Tom Monks

Peninsula Collaboration for Health Operational Research and Data Science (PenCHORD), University of Exeter Medical School

Dr Alison Harper

Centre for Simulation, Analytics and Modelling (CSAM), University of Exeter Business School

Overview

This book describes the findings from work package 1 of the project STARS: Sharing Tools and Artefacts for Reproducible Simulations in healthcare.

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  • Introduction - background on STARS, pilot work, and the aim of work package 1
  • Methods - summarises the methods which are described in detail in our protocol
  • Results - describes the results of the reproductions and evaluations, and reflections from the process
  • Discussion - considers and applies findings

Publication

This is work is described in:

Heather, A. Monks, T. Harper, A. Mustafee, N. Mayne, A. On the reproducibility of discrete-event simulation studies in health research: an empirical study using open models (2025). Journal of Simulation. https://doi.org/10.1080/17477778.2025.2552177.

Funding

This work is supported by the Medical Research Council [grant number MR/Z503915/1].

Licence

This book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

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