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“If an experiment is well designed, it is relatively easy to get help with the statistical analysis; but if it is incorrectly designed, it may be impossible to extract any useful information from it.” Festing (2002, p. 191)
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Ulbrich, HF. (2011). Statistical Considerations for Animal Imaging Studies. In: Kiessling, F., Pichler, B. (eds) Small Animal Imaging. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12945-2_6
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