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Pseudoreplication Revisited
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during 1960-1980 for evidence of pseudoreplication (Hurlbert 1984).Pseudoreplication is defined by Hurlbert (1984: 18) as
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“Pseudoreplication has been addressed repeatedly in ecology, agriculture, psychology, and neuroscience and acknowledged as one of the most common statistical mistakes in scientific literature4–9.”
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“Here we hope to address pseudoreplication in single-cell analyses by demonstrating what a large and long-standing body of statistical literature already confirms: applying statistical inference to replicates that are not statistically independent without properly accounting for their correlation structure will inflate type 1 error rates and lead to spurious results4–6,9,25–28.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Heffner, R. A., Butler, M. J., & Reilly, C. K.
- Venue
- Ecology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 1996-12
- Volume
- 77
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 2558-2562
- ISSN
- 0012-9658 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-9170
- OpenAlex
- W4240529425
- Semantic Scholar
- 79be96546a85de95d191acaf9aaaf35799fb84c4
- Cited by
- 139
- References
- 9
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 11 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 7 · 2016: 7 · 2015: 5 · 2014: 4 · 2013: 3 · 2012: 6
- FWCI
- 2.44
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- Locations
- Ecology (publishedVersion)
- ODU Digital Commons (Old Dominion University) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Nature and Landscape Conservation › Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Statistical Methods and Applications
- Keywords
- pseudoreplication, statistical inference, repeated measures, sample size, statistical power, ecological data analysis
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