This section will be used to publish resources for fish researchers and animal care staff.
Gareth Difford has held presentations on statistical power and design in fish experiments.
4-Experimental design and statistical analysis
There are extensive sources of guidance on study design and statistical analysis in a separate section of this website. These, together with a statistician, should be consulted at an early stage.
Other sections of the PREPARE guidelines cover the animal and facility related issues of experimental design.
An additional critical part of "experimental design" is evaluation of the animals' housing, husbandry and care. See the section on Housing and Husbandry.
- How to plan animal studies well (on-demand webinar from Responsible Research in Practice)
- More on-demand webinars on experimental design
- Festing (2013): We are not Born Knowing how to Design and Analyse Scientific Experiments
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Consider pilot studies, statistical power and significance levels.
General principles
For fish researchers