How do I write a good peer review?

How often do researchers from peer-review journals let others see their original data sets?

• I'm curious because I want to play around with data sets for fun on some statistics software I'm teaching myself, plus I want to create equations to describe/predict things I find interesting in peer-review journals. I've been looking at peer-review journals for fun since I was in high school. Not that any of us are Isaac Newton, but he was into making equations to describe/predict things. It helped him come up with new hypotheses to test, see patterns between already existing ideas to create broader perspective principles, and to see which ideas may have looked the same but which were extremely different. How often do they let others see their original data sets? Do people just email the authors of a peer-review article to get it from them?

• Answer:

  If you could contact the author I'm sure you might be able to arrange something. Depends on the person really. I know a few people who would be protective of that kind of information especially when it involves someone they are not familiar with. I am assuming that you are not an official academic but if you are a student at a university I'd put the university's name behind your request any say that you have an academic interest in the original data sets.