pseudoreplication
nounEtymology From pseudo- + replication.
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Biology, Ecology, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Sciences, Statistics Especially in 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.2005, Michael J. Crawley, Statistics: an introduction using R, page 13: