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Individual units were measured repeatedly in the experiments considered in the previous chapters. A completely different type of experiment will be considered in this chapter. Characteristically, the response of an individual can only be measured once. For example, the response may be the time taken for a fruit to ripen after harvest or the time taken for an insect to die after being exposed to an insecticide. Each unit in the experiment consists of a sample of individuals and the response is observed for each individual. The unit is usually assessed repeatedly so that the data are produced serially.
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Roberts, E.A. (1992). Response (reaction) times. In: Sequential Data in Biological Experiments. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3120-9_10
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