Pseudoreplication
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 The exaggeration of the statistical significance of a set of measurements resulting from treating the data as independent observations when they are in fact interdependent. countable, uncountable
"There are two kinds of pseudoreplication: / temporal pseudoreplication, involving repeated measurements from the same individual, and / spatial pseudoreplicaiton, involving several measurements taken from the same vicinity."
Example
More examples"There are two kinds of pseudoreplication: / temporal pseudoreplication, involving repeated measurements from the same individual, and / spatial pseudoreplicaiton, involving several measurements taken from the same vicinity."
Etymology
From pseudo- + replication.
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