"pseudoreplication" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: pseudoreplications [plural]
Etymology: pseudo- + replication Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|pseudo|replication}} pseudo- + replication Head templates: {{en-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. Wikipedia link: pseudoreplication Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Biology, Ecology, Statistics

Inflected forms

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