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experimental unit: a standalone construct

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Laboratory animal science

smallest entity that can be independently assigned to a treatment, which sets the true sample size N in an animal experiment.

In laboratory animal science, experimental unit refers to smallest entity that can be independently assigned to a treatment, which sets the true sample size N in an animal experiment. This meaning comes from Lazic (2018) in PLOS Biology.[1]

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  1. Lazic, S. E., Clarke-Williams, C. J., & Munafò, M. R. (2018). What exactly is ‘N’ in cell culture and animal experiments? PLOS Biology, 16(4), e2005282. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2005282

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