Experimental power considerations-Justifying replication for animal care and use committees

Poultry Science

Volumn 92, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 2490-2497

  Demétrio, Clarice G B ^a   Menten, José F M ^a   Leandro, Roseli A ^a   Brien, Chris ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Analysis of variance; Replication; Statistical power; Type I Error; Type II error

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; AVES;

EID: 84882663784     PISSN: 00325791     EISSN: 15253171     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3382/ps.2012-02731     Document Type: Article

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