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2011 Feb 21
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OT: R Square Help (this debate again, i know!) and The Experimental Unit
...definition. Here is the
one that I think is gfermane:
Experimental Unit: The smallest division of the experimental material
that can receive separate treatments.
There is a brief but (imo) pertinent discussion of what this means in
the context of food science here:
http://ift.confex.com/ift/2005/techprogram/paper_27139.htm
The importance of this idea -- never, insofar as I can tell, discussed
in statistics texts -- is that it is the unit over which replication
must occur for statistical calculations to provide scientifically
meaningful estimates of experimental variability. Confusion or
ignorance of...