pseudoreplication

noun

Etymology

From pseudo- + replication.

  1. derived from replicātiō
  2. derived from replicacion
  3. derived from replicacioun
  4. inherited from replicacioun
  5. prefixed as pseudoreplication — “pseudo + replication

Definitions

  1. The exaggeration of the statistical significance of a set of measurements resulting from…

    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.

    • 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for pseudoreplication. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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