Replication Redux : The Reproducibility Crisis and the Case of Deworming (English)

In 2004, a landmark study showed that an inexpensive medication to treat parasitic worms could improve health and school attendance for millions of children in many developing countries. Eleven years later, a headline in the Guardian reported that this treatment, deworming, had been "debunked." The pronouncement followed an effort to replicate and re-analyze the original study, as well as an update to a systematic review of the effects of deworming...

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Ozier,Owen;
Document Date
2019/04/30
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Policy Research Working Paper
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WPS8835
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1
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1
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World,
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Other,
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2019/04/30
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Disclosed
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Replication Redux : The Reproducibility Crisis and the Case of Deworming
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deworming

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Ozier,Owen.

Replication Redux : The Reproducibility Crisis and the Case of Deworming (English). Policy Research working paper|no. WPS 8835 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/118271556632669793

Replication Redux : The Reproducibility Crisis and the Case of Deworming (English)

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