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What role should Randomised Control Trials play in providing the evidence base underpinning conservation?

2018-05-14

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There is general agreement that conservation decision-making should be evidence-informed, but many evaluations of intervention effectiveness do not attempt to account for confounding variables and so provide weak evidence. Randomised Control Trials (RCTs), in which experimental units are randomly allocated to treatment or control groups, offer an intuitive means of calculating the effect size of an intervention th...

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Literature Corpus work: 45d65a74-a4e8-592a-a9cc-9515858bf86f
DOI: 10.7287/peerj.preprints.26929v1

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