Reproducibility: Principles, Problems, Practices, and Prospects

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

• ISBN: 978-1-118-86497-5
• Editorial: Wiley–Blackwell
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 608
• Fecha Publicación: 30/03/2016
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés