Programming error in a particular set of Python scripts may have affected hundreds of studies

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'Willoughby-Hoye' python scripts produced different results depending on the operating systems on which they were run

Python scripts used for computational analysis of data may produce different results depending on the operating systems on which they are run. That's according to a team of researchers at the Un...

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