pseudoreplication

pseudoreplication

English

Etymology

Etymology tree
Ancient Greek ψεύδω (pseúdō)
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *-ēs
Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs)
Ancient Greek -ής (-ḗs)
Ancient Greek ψευδής (pseudḗs)der.
Middle English pseudo-
English pseudo-
English replication
English pseudoreplication

    From pseudo- + replication.

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    Noun

    pseudoreplication (countable and uncountable, plural pseudoreplications)

    1. (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.
      • 2005, Michael J. Crawley, Statistics: an introduction using R, page 13:
        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.
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