Reproducibility

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.

• Contributors ixIntroduction 1Harald Atmanspacher and Sabine MaasenPart I: Contextual Backgrounds Introductory Remarks 9Harald AtmanspacherReproducibility, Objectivity, Invariance 13Holm TetensReproducibility between Production and Prognosis 21Walther Ch. ZimmerliStability and Replication of Experimental Results: A Historical Perspective 39Friedrich SteinleReproducibility of Experiments: Experimenters’ Regress, Statistical Uncertainty Principle, and the Replication Imperative 65Harry CollinsPart II: Statistical Issues Introductory Remarks 83Harald AtmanspacherStatistical Issues in Reproducibility 87Werner A. StahelModel Selection, Data Distributions and Reproducibility 115Richard Shiffrin and Suyog ChandramouliReproducibility from the Perspective of Meta-Analysis 141Werner EhmWhy Are There so Many Clustering Algorithms, and How Valid Are Their Results? 169Vladimir Estivill-CastroPart III: Physical Sciences Introductory Remarks 201Harald AtmanspacherFacilitating Reproducibility in Scientific Computing: Principles and Practice 205David H. Bailey, Jonathan M. Borwein, and Victoria StoddenMethodological Issues in the Study of Complex Systems 233Harald Atmanspacher and Gerda DemmelRare and Extreme Events 251Holger KantzScience under Societal Scrutiny: Reproducibility in Climate Science 269Georg FeulnerPart IV: Life Sciences Introductory Remarks 287Harald AtmanspacherFrom Mice to Men: Translation from Bench to Bedside 291Marianne Martic-Kehl and P. August SchubigerA Continuum of Reproducible Research in Drug Development 315Gerd Folkers and Sabine BaierRandomness as a Building Block for Reproducibility in Local Cortical Networks 325Johannes Lengler and Angelika StegerNeural Reuse and in-Principle Limitations on Reproducibility in Cognitive Neuroscience 341Michael L. AndersonOn the Difference between Persons and Things– Reproducibility in Social Contexts 363Kai VogeleyPart V: Social Sciences Introductory Remarks 385Sabine Maasen and Harald AtmanspacherOrder Effects in Sequential Judgments and Decisions 391Zheng Wang and Jerome BusemeyerReproducibility in the Social Sciences 407Martin ReinhartAccurate But Not Reproducible? The Possible Worlds of Public Opinion Research 425Felix KellerDepending on Numbers 447Theodore M. PorterScience between Trust and Control: Non-Reproducibility in Scholarly Publishing 467Martina FranzenPart VI: Wider Perspectives Introductory Remarks 487Sabine Maasen and Harald AtmanspacherRepetition with a Difference: Reproducibility in Literature Studies 491Ladina Bezzola LambertRepetition Impossible: Co-Affection by Mimesis and Self-Mimesis 511Hinderk EmrichRelevance Criteria for Reproducibility: The Contextual Emergence of Granularity 527|Harald AtmanspacherThe Quest for Reproducibility Viewed in the Context of Innovation Societies 541Sabine MaasenIndex 563