Statistical Sciences 2037A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences, Natural Sciences And Engineering Research Council

• School: Western University
• Department: Statistical Sciences
• Course: Statistical Sciences 2037A/B
• Professor: Jennifer Waugh

Document Summary

Ethics: the study of standards of right and wrong; that part of science and philosophy dealing with moral conduct, duty, and judgement(cid:1689) Research in canada: all research studies involving humans or animals must be approved in advance by an institutional research ethics board (reb) Purpose is to approve, oversee, and advise on ethical aspects of all research involving human subjects or materials in which the national research council of. Ethics approval involves submitting an ethical application thats review by the reb. the board assess the application in terms of ethical standards expected by. They"re governed by a policy statement adopted by the 3 main federal research funding institutions. Tri-council policy statement (tcps2): jointly adopted policy statement by cihr, Nserc, and sshrc for ethical conduct for research involving humans. The policy statement was informed by leading international ethics norms and they help guide canadian researchers conduct ethical research.