Reproducibility in biomedical resear...
Montgomery, Erwin B., (Jr.,)

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  • Reproducibility in biomedical research = epistemological and statistical problems /
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    Title/Author: Reproducibility in biomedical research/ Erwin B. Montgomery, Jr.
    Reminder of title: epistemological and statistical problems /
    Author: Montgomery, Erwin B.,
    Published: London, United Kingdom :Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier, : 2019.,
    Description: 1 online resource
    [NT 15003449]: Front Cover; Reproducibility in Biomedical Research; Copyright Page; Dedication; Quote; Contents; Preface; Prologue; 1 Introduction; Science as Argumentation Within the Experiment and Within the Community; Scientific Argumentation and Logic; The Multifaceted Notion of Irreproducibility; Productive Irreproducibility; Ontology Versus Epistemology; The Use of Logical Formalism; Summary; 2 The Problem of Irreproducibility; Type I and II Errors; Controlling the Inevitability of Irreproducibility Risk; Institutional Responses; Reproducibility and Irreproducibility
    [NT 15003449]: Contributions of Logic to Biomedical ResearchReductionism and Conceptual (Broad) Irreproducibility; Variability, Central Tendency, Chaos, and Complexity; Conceptual Reproducibility and the Importance of Hypothesis Generation; Summary; 3 Validity of Biomedical Science, Reproducibility, and Irreproducibility; Science Must Be Doing Something Right and Therein Lies Reproducibility and Productive Irreproducibility; Science Versus Human Knowledge of It; The Necessity of Enabling Assumptions; The Centrality of Reproducibility; The Central Tendency; The Scientific Method; Reductionism; Causality
    [NT 15003449]: Special Cases of Irreproducible ReproducibilityScience as Inference to the Best Explanation; Summary; 4 The Logic of Certainty Versus the Logic of Discovery; Certainty, Reproducibility, and Logic; Deductive Logic-Certainty and Limitations; Syllogistic Deduction; Judicious Use of the Fallacy of Four Terms; Partial, Probability, Practical, and Causal Syllogisms; Propositional Logic; Induction; The Duhem-Quine Thesis; Summary; 5 The Logic of Probability and Statistics; The Value of the Logical Perspective in Probability and Statistics
    [NT 15003449]: Metaphysics: Ontology Versus Epistemology and Biomedical ReproducibilityIndependence of Probabilities and Regression Toward the Mean; Avoiding the Fallacy of Four Terms; The Conflation of Ontology and Epistemology; Summary; 6 Causation, Process Metaphor, and Reductionism; Practical Syllogism and Beyond; Centrality of Hypothesis to Experimentation and Centrality of Causation to Hypothesis Generation; Reductionism and the Fallacies of Composition and Division; Other Fallacies as Applied to Cause; Discipline in the Principle of Causational and Informational Synonymy; Summary
    [NT 15003449]: 7 Case Studies in Clinical Biomedical ResearchForbearance of Repetition; Setting the Stage; Clinical Meaningfulness; Statistics and Internal Validity; Establishing Clinical Meaningfulness; Specific Features to Look for in Case Studies; Case Study-Two Conflicting Studies of Hormone Use in Postmenopausal Women, Which Is Irreproducible?; Summary; 8 Case Studies in Basic Biomedical Research; Forbearance of Repetition; Purpose; Setting the Stage; The Value of a Tool from Its Intended Use; What is Basic Biomedical Research?; Scientific Meaning Versus Statistical Significance
    Subject: Biology - Research. -
    Online resource: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780128174432
    ISBN: 9780128176726 (electronic bk.)
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