Replicability/Reproducibility

  1. What is the difference between replicable and reproducible research?
  2. What tools (including those mentioned today or that you’ve come across in the past) are available for making scientific publications more reproducible?
  3. Is replicability of scientific results a problem?

Drug Sensitivity

  1. What associations are investigated by the analyses two large studies introduced in the presentation?
  2. What is the key issue raised by Haibe-Kains et al. (2013)?
  3. Is it possible for the results of two papers to reach conflicting conclusions using the same data?
  4. Is it appropriate for researchers to reanalyze data and challenge the original conclusions?