Stepping in the Same River Twice

Published by Yale University Press 2017

Stepping in the Same River Twice

Replication in Biological Research

Edited by: Ayelet Shavit and Aaron M. Ellison
Preface by: W. John Kress

https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300228038

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About this book

An international team of biologists, philosophers, and historians of science explores the critically important process of replication in biological and biomedical research

Without 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.

Author information

Ayelet Shavit, a philosopher of science, is a senior lecturer and head of the philosophy program at Tel Hai College. She lives at Kibbutz K'far Giladi, Israel. Aaron M. Ellison is the senior research fellow in ecology, Harvard University, Harvard Forest. He lives in Royalston, MA.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Foreword W. John Kress Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xi
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xvii
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xxi
Part one. Introduction replication across disciplines
Chapter one. Toward a Taxonomy of Scientific Replication Aaron M. Shavit and Aaron M. Ellison Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Chapter two. Borges on Replication and Concept Formation Yemima Ben-Menahem Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
Chapter three. The Historical Emergence of Replication reifying: geography through repeated surveys Haim Goren Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
Part two. replication in biology: overviews and case studies
The Value of Natural History Collections Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
Chapter four. Natural History Collections as Dynamic Research Archives Tamar Dayan and Bella Galil Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
Chapter five. Looking to the Past to Plan for the Future: Using natural history collections as historical baselines Rebecca J. Rowe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	64
Repeatable Monitoring and Observations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
Chapter six. Monitoring: Repeated sampling for understanding nature Avi Perevolotsky, Naama Berg, Orit Ginzburg and Ron Drori Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
Chapter seven. Monitoring the State of Nature in Israel Ron Drori, Naama Berg and Avi Perevolotsky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	94
Chapter eight. Creating Coherent Time Series through Repeated Measurements in a Marine Monitoring Program Yonathan Shaked and Amatzia Genin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	112
Replication and Experiments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
Chapter nine. Contingent Repeatability of Experiments in Time and Space Aaron M. Ellison Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
Chapter ten. The Influence of Variation among Replicates on Repeatability Jacob Pitcovski, Ehud Shahar and Avigdor Cahaner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
Meta-analysis and the Need for Repeatability Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
Chapter eleven. Replication and Repetition in Systematic Reviews and Meta–analyses in Medicine Leonard Leibovici and Mical Paul Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
Chapter twelve. Clinical Heterogeneity in Multiple Trials of the Antimicrobial Treatment of Cholera Mical Paul, Ya’ara Leibovici-Weissman and Leonard Leibovici Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
The Role of Metadata in Creating Reproducible Research Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
Chapter thirteen. Reliable Metadata and the Creation of Trustworthy, Reproducible, and Re-usable Data Sets Kristin Vanderbilt and David Blankman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
Chapter fourteen. Replication of Data Analyses: Provenance in R Emery R. Boose and Barbara S. Lerner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
Part three. Integration and synthesis
Chapter fifteen. Turning Oranges into Apples Using detectability correction and bias heuristics to compare imperfectly repeated observations Morgan W. Tingley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
Chapter sixteen. Dissecting and Reconstructing Time and Space for Replicable Biological Research Barbara Helm and Ayelet Shavit Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
Chapter seventeen. Best Practices for Creating Replicable Research Aaron M. Ellison Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	250
Epilogue: A chorus’s dance with replication Ayelet Shavit Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	311

Language: English
Publisher: Yale University Press
Pages
- Main content: 288
Illustrations
- Other: 38 b-w illus.

eBook

Published: October 8, 2018
ISBN: 9780300228038