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Born to fail: flaws in replication design produce intended results

Abraham D. Flaxman; Riley Hazard; Ian Riley; Alan D. Lopez; Christopher J. L. Murray · 2020 · BMC Medicine

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“The developers of this software claim to have failed to replicate our results and appear to have also failed to locate our replication archive for this work.”

Abstract

Abstract We recently published in BMC Medicine an evaluation of the comparative diagnostic performance of InSilicoVA, a software to map the underlying causes of death from verbal autopsy interviews. The developers of this software claim to have failed to replicate our results and appear to have also failed to locate our replication archive for this work. In this Correspondence, we provide feedback on how this might have been done more usefully and offer some suggestions to improve future attempts at reproducible research. We also offer an alternative interpretation of the results presented by

Abstract by Abraham D. Flaxman; Riley Hazard; Ian Riley; Alan D. Lopez; Christopher J. L. Murray, BMC Medicine (2020) — licensed CC BY 4.0.

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