The problem of pseudoreplication in neuroscientific studies: is it affecting your analysis?
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- 14 January 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in BMC Neuroscience
- Vol. 11 (1) , 5
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2202-11-5
Abstract
Pseudoreplication occurs when observations are not statistically independent, but treated as if they are. This can occur when there are multiple observations on the same subjects, when samples are nested or hierarchically organised, or when measurements are correlated in time or space. Analysis of such data without taking these dependencies into account can lead to meaningless results, and examples can easily be found in the neuroscience literature.This publication has 70 references indexed in Scilit:
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