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1 online resource (xxii, 318 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Part one. Introduction: Replication across disciplines. 1. Toward a taxonomy of scientific replication / Ayelet Shavit and Aaron M. Ellison ; 2. Borges on replication and concept formation / Yemima Ben-Menahem ; 3. The historical emergence of replication : reifying geography through repeated surveys / Haim Goren -- Part two. Replication in biology : overviews and case studies. The value of natural history collections. 4. Natural history collections as dynamic research archives / Tamar Dayan and Bella Galil. 5. Looking to the past to plan for the future : using natural history collections as historical baselines / Rebecca I. Rowe ; Repeatable monitoring and observations. 6. Monitoring : repeated sampling for understanding nature / Avi Perevolotsky, Naama Berg, Orit Ginzburg, and Ron Drori. 7. Monitoring the state of nature in Israel / Ron Drori, Naama Berg, and Avi Perevolotsky. 8. Creating coherent time series through repeated measurements in a marine monitoring program / Yonathan Shaked and Amatzia Genin ; Replication and experiments. 9. Contingent repeatability of experiments in time and space / Aaron M. Ellison. 10. The influence of variation among replicates on repeatability / Jacob Pitcovski, Ehud Shahar, and Avigdor Cahaner ; Meta-analysis and the need for repeatability. 11. Replication and repetition in systematic reviews and meta-analyses in medicine / Leonard Leibovici and Mical Paul. 12. Clinical heterogeneity in multiple trials of the antimicrobial treatment of cholera / Mical Paul, Ya'ara Leibovici-Weissman, and Leonard Leibovici ; The role of metadata in creating reproducible research. 13. Reliable metadata and the creation of trustworthy, reproducible, and re-usable data sets / Kristin Vanderbilt and David Blankman. 14. Replication of data analyses : provenance in R / Emery R. Boose and Barbara S. Lerner -- Part three. Integration and synthesis. 15. Turning oranges into apples : using detectability correction and bias heuristics to compare imperfectly repeated observations / Morgan W. Tingley ; 16. Dissecting and reconstructing time and space for replicable biological research / Barbara Helm and Ayelet Shavit ; 17. Best practices for creating replicable research / Aaron M. Ellison -- Epilogue: A chorus's dance with replication / Ayelet Shavit. |
| Summary |
"An international team of biologists, philosophers, and historians of science explores the critically important process of replication in biological and biomedical researchWithout replication, the trustworthiness of scientific research remains in doubt. Although replication is increasingly recognized as a central problem in many scientific disciplines, repeating the same scientific observations of experiments or reproducing the same set of analyses from existing data is remarkably difficult. In this important volume, an international team of biologists, philosophers, and historians of science addresses challenges and solutions for valid replication of research in medicine, ecology, natural history, agriculture, physiology, and computer science. After the introduction to important concepts and historical background, the book offers paired chapters that provide theoretical overviews followed by detailed case studies. These studies range widely in topics, from infectious-diseases and environmental monitoring to museum collections, meta-analysis, bioinformatics, and more. The closing chapters explicate and quantify problems in the case studies, and the volume concludes with important recommendations for best practices."--Publisher description. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Biology -- Research.
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Biology -- Research. |
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Replication (Experimental design)
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Replication (Experimental design) |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Shavit, Ayelet, 1967- editor.
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Ellison, Aaron M., 1960- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Stepping in the same river twice 9780300209549 (OCoLC)959035824 |
| ISBN |
9780300228038 (electronic book) |
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0300228031 (electronic book) |
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9780300209549 |
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