Stepping in the same river twice : replication in biological research / edited by Ayelet Shavit and Aaron M. Ellison ; with a foreword by W. John Kress.
Part one. Introduction: Replication across disciplines. 1. Toward a taxonomy of scientific replication / Ayelet Shavit and Aaron M. Ellison ; 2. Borges on replication and concept formation / Yemima Ben-Menahem ; 3. The historical emergence of replication : reifying geography through repeated surveys / Haim Goren -- Part two. Replication in biology : overviews and case studies. The value of natural history collections. 4. Natural history collections as dynamic research archives / Tamar Dayan and Bella Galil. 5. Looking to the past to plan for the future : using natural history collections as historical baselines / Rebecca I. Rowe ; Repeatable monitoring and observations. 6. Monitoring : repeated sampling for understanding nature / Avi Perevolotsky, Naama Berg, Orit Ginzburg, and Ron Drori. 7. Monitoring the state of nature in Israel / Ron Drori, Naama Berg, and Avi Perevolotsky. 8. Creating coherent time series through repeated measurements in a marine monitoring program / Yonathan Shaked and Amatzia Genin ; Replication and experiments. 9. Contingent repeatability of experiments in time and space / Aaron M. Ellison. 10. The influence of variation among replicates on repeatability / Jacob Pitcovski, Ehud Shahar, and Avigdor Cahaner ; Meta-analysis and the need for repeatability. 11. Replication and repetition in systematic reviews and meta-analyses in medicine / Leonard Leibovici and Mical Paul. 12. Clinical heterogeneity in multiple trials of the antimicrobial treatment of cholera / Mical Paul, Ya'ara Leibovici-Weissman, and Leonard Leibovici ; The role of metadata in creating reproducible research. 13. Reliable metadata and the creation of trustworthy, reproducible, and re-usable data sets / Kristin Vanderbilt and David Blankman. 14. Replication of data analyses : provenance in R / Emery R. Boose and Barbara S. Lerner -- Part three. Integration and synthesis. 15. Turning oranges into apples : using detectability correction and bias heuristics to compare imperfectly repeated observations / Morgan W. Tingley ; 16. Dissecting and reconstructing time and space for replicable biological research / Barbara Helm and Ayelet Shavit ; 17. Best practices for creating replicable research / Aaron M. Ellison -- Epilogue: A chorus's dance with replication / Ayelet Shavit.
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