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the replication. Thus its influence is factorized out in the first option or randomized
across treatments in the second.
8 All of these rules may be broken, but that degrades the design to one yielding
neither strong inference nor an unambiguous conclusion. Such results are still use-
ful so long as their dubious nature is fully appreciated and declared. Environmental
impact assessments are just such examples.

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June 1987 June 1988

Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 1 Day 2 Day 3

Red kangaroos 45 19 18 72 31 28
17 51 44 32 29 9
8 8 61 94 34 48
28 11 35 27 47 38
26 72 65 66 21 91
48 34 76 55 49 138
53 67 52 102 29 67
___^62 ___^27 ___^30 ___^41 ___^67106 ___
Tijk= 287 289 381 489 307 525
x ̄= 35.9 36.1 47.6 61.1 38.4 65.6
Gray kangaroos 66 27 27 116 65 10
52 47 66 81 57 22
34 13 75 63 41 43
8 16 104 25 33 63
35 101 109 75 120 74
36 150 170 77 28 101
42 116 51 59 62 76
___^65 ___^66 ___^14 ___^59 ___^17 ___^82
Tijk= 338 536 616 555 423 471
x ̄= 42.3 67.0 77.0 69.4 52.9 58.9

ANOVA

Source SS d.f. MS FF0.05*

ROW(SPECIES) 4,551.3 1 4551.3 4.7 4.0
COLUMN(DAYS) 3,227.3 2 1613.6 1.6 3.1
LAYER(YEARS) 1,086.8 1 1086.8 1.1 4.0
RC interaction 1,018.1 2 509.0 0.5 3.1
CL interaction 4,681.6 2 2340.8 2.3 3.1
RL interaction 1,708.6 1 1708.6 1.7 4.0
RCL interaction 1,444.7 2 722.3 0.7 3.1
Residual 86,359.4 84 1028.1
Total 104,077.7 95

*F0.05is the critical level that must be exceeded by the observed Fto qualify for a probability equal
to or less than 5%.

Box 16.3Red
kangaroos and gray
kangaroos counted on
the Cunnamulla degree
block (10,870 km^2 ) in
1987 and 1988. Each
replicate is the number
of kangaroos counted
on a transect measuring
0.4 km by 90 km.

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