"pseudoreplication" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-pseudoreplication.wav [US] Forms: pseudoreplications [plural]
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  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. Tags: countable, uncountable

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