What do the terms transparency, traceability, reproducibility, retrievability and review mean?
Transparency – being able to follow the logic, calculations, and other operations that produced the results – means that the results of the work can be clearly and readily understood by someone of similar technical expertise as the investigator or author of the documentation. Traceability – understanding the source and justification of data and other inputs that generated the conclusions – means that the sources of the data and information used in the work are unambiguously identified; it also implies that the data have been qualified. Reproducibility – being able to reconstruct the results – means that the documentation of how the work was done is complete and clear enough that the work could be completely re-performed by someone other than the original investigator(s) and the results of the repeated work would be the same as the original work (within some appropriate margin). Retrievability – being able to retrieve documentation – means simply that records necessary to illustrate tha
