Pseudoreplication
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Pseudoreplication is a noun meaning (statistics, especially in, biology, ecology) 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.
Meaning
(statistics, especially in, biology, ecology) 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.
Example Sentences
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.
Word Forms
- pseudoreplications
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include bioreplicate, pseudoparasitism, pseudodiploidy, bioreplication, pseudobiology, pseudoadaptation.
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