Pseudoreplication

How it is used

Count independent experimental units, not merely recorded measurements.

Example sentences

1. Treating ten leaves from one plant as ten independent plants creates pseudoreplication.

   Leaves share the same plant and are not independent plants.

2. Our analysis addressed pseudoreplication by accounting for repeated measurements on students.

   Repeated observations of one student are related.

Common collocations

• avoid pseudoreplication
• problem of pseudoreplication

Related terms

• sampleThe smaller group of people, items or texts selected from a larger population for a study, so that conclusions can be drawn about that population.
• statistical analysisThe examination of data using statistical methods to describe patterns, test ideas, and estimate relationships or differences.

More terms: Data and Analysis

• data
• findings
• analysis
• significant
• draw a conclusion
• correlation
• thematic analysis
• account for
• interpret
• dataset
• mean
• standard deviation