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

This section will be used to publish resources for fish researchers and animal care staff.

• Lazado et al. (2024): Embracing prospects for reducing the numbers of animals used in aquaculture research
• A review of the need and possible uses for genetically standardized Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) in research (Grimholt et al., 2009) A lack of a genetically standardized Atlantic salmon leads to a need for high numbers of salmon in research. Potential methods of producing a genetically standardized salmon are discussed in this paper.
• Hansen et al. (2020) Production and verification of the first Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) clonal lines. BMC Genetics, 42(2): 218-224.

This page was updated on 07 March 2024