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- noun statistics, especially in, biology, ecology The exaggeration of the statistical
significance of a set ofmeasurements resulting from treating thedata asindependent observations when they are in factinterdependent .
Etymologies
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pseudo- + replication
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Because some individuals were tracked for multiple successive trips, we analysed foraging parameters (maximum range, time spent foraging) using mixed-model analyses of variance (ANOVAs; module VEPAC in STATISTICA 8) to overcome issues of pseudoreplication.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Henri Weimerskirch et al. 2010
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Bearings from the same bat had to be at least two minutes apart to be included in the dataset to avoid pseudoreplication.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Dina K. N. Dechmann et al. 2010
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