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The Many Faces of Replication.

Douglas H. Johnson, U.S.G.S. Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center, University of Minnesota, Department of Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, 1980 Folwell Ave, St. Paul, MN 55108

Replication arises in a variety of forms in scientific research. Pseudoreplication involves treating multiple measurements of the system as independent replicates. Taking multiple measurements is a good thing; treating them as independent is not. Replication of treatments within a study is definitely a good thing; it gives us greater confidence in the results and also allows an estimate of its reliability. I argue that even more important is what I have termed meta-replication: the repetition of entire studies. Besides the value that it offers by expanding the scope of inference of the results, meta-replication provides a framework in which weak or unreplicated studies have

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