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The fact that animals react differently to experimental treatment (biological variability) requires numerical verification when evaluating the effect of treatment. If all animals reacted identically, only one animal would be needed to measure the effect of a treatment. To state this differently, variability is the noise of a computer system, while the effect is the signal. Due to the inherent noise of the biological system, the mean signal can only be identified when the signal is made strong enough to be detected. Alternatively, by reducing the noise, the effect also becomes clearer.
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Snipes, R.L. (1997). Methodology. In: Intestinal Absorptive Surface in Mammals of Different Sizes. Advances in Anatomy Embryology and Cell Biology, vol 138. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60822-3_2
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