Repetitive tasks are boring. Also, repetitive tasks are prone to errors. I could copy and paste values in a spreadsheet, but for every 100 things I do, 5 of them would be wrong. The number of errors goes up for more complex tasks. Fortunately, computers are really good at repetitive tasks and they don’t make errors, whether they copy and
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I am assuming you have followed the previous tutorials in this short series on how to manipulate Pubmed references using Python (1, 2, 3, 4, 5). We have cleaned the references and had a user select the references that are to be kept. These files are now located in refs_keep.txt. The last thing that we have to do is extract
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I am assuming you have followed the previous tutorials in this short series on how to manipulate Pubmed references using Python (1, 2, 3, 4). We have cleaned up the references by removing unwanted fields and ensuring sections like the abstract are not split over multiple lines. The cleaned references are saved in a text file cleaned_pubmed_refs.txt. We are now
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I am assuming you have followed the previous tutorials in this short series on how to manipulate Pubmed references using Python (1, 2, 3). You should have a list variable called refs4 in your Python console that contains the cleaned references. Because we will be working with this cleaned version of the references from now on, it would be a
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As stated in a recent post, the majority of scientific findings are likely false (Ioannidis, 2005). Although there are multiple reasons for this, it has been suggested that the pressure to publish is the driving incentive behind scientists adopting poor research practices that lead to false findings. In a recent paper, Smaldino & McElreath (2016) argue that the pressure to
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There is evidence that many (and possibly most) of the conclusions drawn from biomedical research are probably false (Ioannidis, 2005). In a 2013 Nature Reviews Neuroscience paper entitled “Power failure: why small sample size undermines the reliability of neuroscience”, Button et al. explained how low statistical power is partly to blame for a similar issue in the field of neuroscience.
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