pseudoreplication

English

Etymology

pseudo- +‎ replication

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.