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Reproducibility
Principles, Problems, Practices, and Prospects
Harald Atmanspacher (Edited by), H Atmanspacher (Author), Sabine Maasen (Edited by)
9781118864975, Wiley
Hardback, published 29 July 2016
608 pages
26.2 x 18.5 x 3.6 cm, 1.247 kg
2017 PROSE Award Honorable Mention Harald Atmanspacher, PhD, is Associate Fellow and staff member at Collegium Helveticum, ETH and University Zurich and is also President of the Society for Mind-Matter Research. He has pioneered advances in complex dynamical systems research and in a number of topics concerned with the relation between the mental and physical. Sabine Maasen, PhD, is Professor for Sociology of Science and Director of the Munich Center for Technology in Society (TU Munich) and Associate Fellow at Collegium Helveticum (ETH and University Zurich). Her research focuses on the interface of science, technology, and society, notably with respect to neuroscience and its applications.
The PROSE Awards draw attention to pioneering works of research and for contributions to the conception, production, and design of landmark works in their fields.
Featuring peer-reviewed contributions from noted experts in their fields of research, Reproducibility: Principles, Problems, Practices, and Prospects presents state-of-the-art approaches to reproducibility, the gold standard of sound science, from multi- and interdisciplinary perspectives. Including comprehensive coverage for implementing and reflecting the norm of reproducibility in various pertinent fields of research, the book focuses on how the reproducibility of results is applied, how it may be limited, and how such limitations can be understood or even controlled in the natural sciences, computational sciences, life sciences, social sciences, and studies of science and technology.
The book presents many chapters devoted to a variety of methods and techniques, as well as their epistemic and ontological underpinnings, which have been developed to safeguard reproducible research and curtail deficits and failures. The book also investigates the political, historical, and social practices that underlie reproducible research in contemporary science studies, including the difficulties of good scientific practice and the ethos of reproducibility in modern innovation societies.
Reproducibility: Principles, Problems, Practices, and Prospects is a guide for researchers who are interested in the general and overarching questions behind the concept of reproducibility; for active scientists who are confronted with practical reproducibility problems in their everyday work; and for economic stakeholders and political decision makers who need to better understand the challenges of reproducibility. In addition, the book is a useful in-depth primer for undergraduate and graduate-level courses in scientific methodology and basic issues in the philosophy and sociology of science from a modern perspective.
“A comprehensive, insightful treatment of the reproducibility challenges facing science today and of ways in which the scientific community can address them.” Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication, University of Pennsylvania
“How can we make sure that reproducible research remains a key imperative of scientific communication under increasing commercialization, media attention, and publication pressure? This handbook offers the first interdisciplinary and fundamental treatment of this important question.”Torsten Hothorn, Professor of Biostatistics, University of Zurich
Contributors ix Introduction 1 Part I: Contextual Backgrounds Introductory Remarks 9 Reproducibility, Objectivity, Invariance 13 Reproducibility between Production and Prognosis 21 Stability and Replication of Experimental Results: A Historical Perspective 39 Reproducibility of Experiments: Experimenters’ Regress, Statistical Uncertainty Principle, and the Replication Imperative 65 Part II: Statistical Issues Introductory Remarks 83 Statistical Issues in Reproducibility 87 Model Selection, Data Distributions and Reproducibility 115 Reproducibility from the Perspective of Meta-Analysis 141 Why Are There so Many Clustering Algorithms, and How Valid Are Their Results? 169 Part III: Physical Sciences Introductory Remarks 201 Facilitating Reproducibility in Scientific Computing: Principles and Practice 205 Methodological Issues in the Study of Complex Systems 233 Rare and Extreme Events 251 Science under Societal Scrutiny: Reproducibility in Climate Science 269 Part IV: Life Sciences Introductory Remarks 287 From Mice to Men: Translation from Bench to Bedside 291 A Continuum of Reproducible Research in Drug Development 315 Randomness as a Building Block for Reproducibility in Local Cortical Networks 325 Neural Reuse and in-Principle Limitations on Reproducibility in Cognitive Neuroscience 341 On the Difference between Persons and Things– Reproducibility in Social Contexts 363 Part V: Social Sciences Introductory Remarks 385 Order Effects in Sequential Judgments and Decisions 391 Reproducibility in the Social Sciences 407 Accurate But Not Reproducible? The Possible Worlds of Public Opinion Research 425 Depending on Numbers 447 Science between Trust and Control: Non-Reproducibility in Scholarly Publishing 467 Part VI: Wider Perspectives Introductory Remarks 487 Repetition with a Difference: Reproducibility in Literature Studies 491 Repetition Impossible: Co-Affection by Mimesis and Self-Mimesis 511 Relevance Criteria for Reproducibility: The Contextual Emergence of Granularity 527| The Quest for Reproducibility Viewed in the Context of Innovation Societies 541 Index 563
Harald Atmanspacher and Sabine Maasen
Harald Atmanspacher
Holm Tetens
Walther Ch. Zimmerli
Friedrich Steinle
Harry Collins
Harald Atmanspacher
Werner A. Stahel
Richard Shiffrin and Suyog Chandramouli
Werner Ehm
Vladimir Estivill-Castro
Harald Atmanspacher
David H. Bailey, Jonathan M. Borwein, and Victoria Stodden
Harald Atmanspacher and Gerda Demmel
Holger Kantz
Georg Feulner
Harald Atmanspacher
Marianne Martic-Kehl and P. August Schubiger
Gerd Folkers and Sabine Baier
Johannes Lengler and Angelika Steger
Michael L. Anderson
Kai Vogeley
Sabine Maasen and Harald Atmanspacher
Zheng Wang and Jerome Busemeyer
Martin Reinhart
Felix Keller
Theodore M. Porter
Martina Franzen
Sabine Maasen and Harald Atmanspacher
Ladina Bezzola Lambert
Hinderk Emrich
Harald Atmanspacher
Sabine Maasen
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