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Course Notes - Department of Mathematics and Statistics

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Replication <strong>and</strong> r<strong>and</strong>omisation• Replication Responses vary among subjects. Replication allowsus to separate out treatment effects from chance effects.• R<strong>and</strong>omisation Ensures that effects <strong>of</strong> unmeasured factors areequalised across the treatment groups.Control• Provides context for evaluating the effect <strong>of</strong> interest.• Often a placebo - determine existence <strong>of</strong> an effect• Sometimes a st<strong>and</strong>ard treatment – differences relative to the st<strong>and</strong>ard.- Effect <strong>of</strong> surgical sterilization on possum populations - shamsurgery.- Effect <strong>of</strong> lactate buffers on 800m time to exhaustion at 20kmph- salt tablets.- Growth <strong>and</strong> survival <strong>of</strong> starved paua larvae - no starvation.22

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