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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

About the Author

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.

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