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. 2017 Jan 19:6:e23383.
doi: 10.7554/eLife.23383.

Making sense of replications

Brian A Nosek  1   2 , Timothy M Errington  1
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Making sense of replications

Brian A Nosek et al. Elife. .

Abstract

The first results from the Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology suggest that there is scope for improving reproducibility in pre-clinical cancer research.

Keywords: Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology; cancer biology; metascience; methodology; open science; replication; reproducibility.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that no competing interests exist.

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