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Hey All,<br>
An interesting bit of news out of the scientific publishing world. <br>
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round of statistical checks to its peer-review process,
editor-in-chief Marcia McNutt announced today. The policy follows
similar efforts from other journals, after widespread concern that
basic mistakes in data analysis are contributing to the
irreproducibility of many published research findings."<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nature.com/news/science-joins-push-to-screen-statistics-in-papers-1.15509">http://www.nature.com/news/science-joins-push-to-screen-statistics-in-papers-1.15509</a><br>
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And a related blog post: <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://chrisblattman.com/2014/07/17/science-magazine-raises-statistical-bar-will/?utm_content=bufferc751c&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer">http://chrisblattman.com/2014/07/17/science-magazine-raises-statistical-bar-will/?utm_content=bufferc751c&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer</a><br>
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Good weekend, everyone. <br>
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Doctoral Student
Institute for Multi-Level Governance and Development
Department of Socioeconomics
WU/Vienna University of Economics and Business
Austria
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.wu.ac.at/mlgd">http://www.wu.ac.at/mlgd</a></pre>
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