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Book Synopsis2017 PROSE Award Honorable Mention
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 o
Table of Contents
Contributors ix
Introduction 1
Harald Atmanspacher and Sabine Maasen
PART I: CONTEXTUAL BACKGROUNDS
Introductory Remarks 9
Harald Atmanspacher
Reproducibility, Objectivity, Invariance 13
Holm Tetens
Reproducibility between Production and Prognosis 21
Walther ChZimmerli
Stability and Replication of Experimental Results: A Historical Perspective 39
Friedrich Steinle
Reproducibility of Experiments: Experimenters’ Regress, Statistical Uncertainty Principle, and the Replication Imperative 65
Harry Collins
PART II: STATISTICAL ISSUES
Introductory Remarks 83
Harald Atmanspacher
Statistical Issues in Reproducibility 87
Werner AStahel
Model Selection, Data Distributions and Reproducibility 115
Richard Shiffrin and Suyog Chandramouli
Reproducibility from the Perspective of Meta-Analysis 141
Werner Ehm
Why Are There so Many Clustering Algorithms, and How Valid Are Their Results? 169
Vladimir Estivill-Castro
PART III: PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Introductory Remarks 201
Harald Atmanspacher
Facilitating Reproducibility in Scientific Computing: Principles and Practice 205
David H Bailey, Jonathan M Borwein, and Victoria Stodden
Methodological Issues in the Study of Complex Systems 233
Harald Atmanspacher and Gerda Demmel
Rare and Extreme Events 251
Holger Kantz
Science under Societal Scrutiny: Reproducibility in Climate Science 269
Georg Feulner
PART IV: LIFE SCIENCES
Introductory Remarks 287
Harald Atmanspacher
From Mice to Men: Translation from Bench to Bedside 291
Marianne Martic-Kehl and P August Schubiger
A Continuum of Reproducible Research in Drug Development 315
Gerd Folkers and Sabine Baier
Randomness as a Building Block for Reproducibility in Local Cortical Networks 325
Johannes Lengler and Angelika Steger
Neural Reuse and in-Principle Limitations on Reproducibility in Cognitive Neuroscience 341
Michael L Anderson
On the Difference between Persons and Things–Reproducibility in Social Contexts 363
Kai Vogeley
PART V: SOCIAL SCIENCES
Introductory Remarks 385
Sabine Maasen and Harald Atmanspacher
Order Effects in Sequential Judgments and Decisions 391
Zheng Wang and Jerome Busemeyer
Reproducibility in the Social Sciences 407
Martin Reinhart
Accurate But Not Reproducible? The Possible Worlds of Public Opinion Research 425
Felix Keller
Depending on Numbers 447
Theodore M Porter
Science between Trust and Control: Non-Reproducibility in Scholarly Publishing 467
Martina Franzen
PART VI: WIDER PERSPECTIVES
Introductory Remarks 487
Sabine Maasen and Harald Atmanspacher
Repetition with a Difference: Reproducibility in Literature Studies 491
Ladina Bezzola Lambert
Repetition Impossible: Co-Affection by Mimesis and Self-Mimesis 511
Hinderk Emrich
Relevance Criteria for Reproducibility: The Contextual Emergence of Granularity 527
Harald Atmanspacher
The Quest for Reproducibility Viewed in the Context of Innovation Societies 541
Sabine Maasen
Index 563
