MEANING
Statistical testing that treats non-independent observations or unreplicated treatments as independent experimental replicates.
Use it for
Treating samples as independent replicates when they are not.Use when an analysis mistakes subsamples or dependent observations for independently replicated experimental units.
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Treating ten leaves from one plant as ten independent plants would create pseudoreplication.
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