Jessica Jiménez is a graduate student in the Curriculum in Toxicology and Environmental Medicine program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Jessica Jiménez
Graduate student
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Few autism researchers control for the ‘litter effect’ — this needs to change
Anyone who uses multiple animals from a small number of litters to increase sample size is making a serious mistake. The similarities within individual litters will heavily skew the results.
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27 April 2021 | 6 min read
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