For a time, it appeared that the Bayesian skyline plot of population size and population growth, that provided support for the Beringian Pause model, was replicated and confirmed in a statistical analysis of radiocarbon dates of Eurasian and Beringian archeological sites.
Key components of the study analysis were replicated and confirmed by a second independent analyst.
And if the results of this study are replicated and confirmed, the public health directives concerning folic acid supplementation may need to be revised.
Replication in other large cohort studies is essential to clarify the role of sleep parameters on birth outcomes, and where associations are replicated and confirmed, the underlying biological mechanisms need exploration in studies with objective sleep measures.
Prior to the pooled analyses, individual published results – using the same dataset, analytical procedures and adjusting variables as in the original study reports – were replicated and confirmed for all studies on receipt of their data (results not shown).
In the last few years, more than 400 GWAS have identified an unprecedented number of candidate disease-associated DNA sites (> 1,200) [ 5], many of them already well-known for their disease association, while many others have also been replicated and confirmed by follow-on studies [ 5].
But the finding could not be replicated (and thus confirmed); the scientists are back at square one and the hunt begins again.
These studies have been replicated and results confirmed in several other ethnic groups [ 11– 17].
Xu et al. (2012)׳s method has been replicated and verified; results are confirmed to be accurate for alcohol+hydrocarbon mixtures, giving VLE predictions of comparable accuracy to the UNIFAC, generally considered the best predictive activity coefficient model available.
The study of the role of miRNAs in major psychosis is in its very early stages and needs to be extended, replicated, and confirmed.
