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 the analyses from raw data all the way to final results. If you are trying to be efficient, you will likely perform
 some summarization/data analysis steps before the data can be considered tidy. 
 
+The ideal thing for you to do when performing summarization is to create a computer script (in R, Python, or something else) 
+that takes the raw data as input and produces the tidy data you are sharing as output. You can try running your script
+a couple of times and see if the code produces the same output. 
 
+In many cases, the person who collected the data has incentive to make it tidy for a statistician to speed the process
+of collaboration. They may not know how to code in a scripting language. In that case, what you should provide the statistician
+is something called psuedocode. It should look something like:
 
+1. Step 1 - take the raw file, run version 3.1.2 of summarize software with parameters a=1, b=2, c=3
+2. Step 2 - run the software separatly for each sample
+3. Step 3 - take column three of outputfile.out for each sample and that is the corresponding row in the output data set
+
+You should also include information about which system (Mac/Windows/Linux) you used the software on and whether you 
+tried it more than once to confirm it gave the same results. Ideally, you will run this by a fellow student/labmate
+to confirm that they can obtain the same output file you did. 
 
 
 
 What you should expect from a statistician
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+When you turn over a properly tidied data set it dramatically decreases the workload on the statistician. So hopefully
+they will get back to you much sooner. But most careful statisticians will check your recipe, ask questions about
+steps you performed, and try to confirm that they can obtain the same tidy data that you did with, at minimum, spot
+checks.
+
+You should then expect from the statistician:
+1. An analysis script that performs each of the analyses (not just instructions)
+2. The exact computer code they used to run the analysis
+3. All output files/figures they generated. 
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+This is the information you will use in the supplement to establish reproducibility and precision of your results. Each
+of the steps in the analysis should be clearly explained and you should ask questions when you don't understand
+what the analyst did. It is the responsibility of both the statistician and the scientist to understand the statistical
+analysis. You may not be able to perform the exact analyses without the statistician's code, but you should be able
+to explain why the statistician performed each step to a labmate/your principal investigator.