Robustness (analyses)
Definition
The persistence of support for a hypothesis under perturbations of the methodological/analytical pipeline In other words, applying different methods/analysis pipelines to examine if the same conclusion is supported under analytical different conditions.
References:
- Goodman, S. N., Fanelli, D., & Ioannidis, J. P. A. (2016). What does research reproducibility mean? Science Translational Medicine, 8(341), 341ps12-341ps12. https://doi.org/10.1126/scitranslmed.aaf5027
- Nosek, B. A., & Errington, T. M. (2020). What is replication? PLOS Biology, 18(3), e3000691. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000691
Originally drafted by: Tina Lonsdorf; Flávio Azevedo
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