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| The orderly process of posing and answering questions about the natural world through repeated and unbiased experiments and observations |
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1.Observation
2. Question
3.Hypothesis
-null(no difference)
-alternative(if, then)
4.Experiment
-measurable data
-repeatable
5.Conclusion
6.Communication |
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| The most common way to state a clear and testable hypothesis. Useful because it is testable to see that there is "no difference" between groups studied. |
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| Repeated measures of each treatment under the same conditions |
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Standards for comparison.
They are replicates with all the conditions of an experimental treatment except the treatment variable. |
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Single number that represents the central tendency of the response variable.
Average |
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| highest and lowest values in a set of replicates |
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| Measure of variation about the mean |
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| differences between means must be due to the treatment and not just due to natural variation. |
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