Reproducibility Crisis: Are We Ignoring Reaction Norms?

Trends in Pharmacological Sciences

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 509-510

  Voelkl, Bernhard ^a   Würbel, Hanno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

norm of reaction; phenotypic plasticity; replication; reproducibility

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; LETTER; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLISHING; REACTION NORM; REPRODUCIBILITY; SAMPLE SIZE; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS;

REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84969544907     PISSN: 01656147     EISSN: 18733735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tips.2016.05.003     Document Type: Letter

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