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MR. H. A. HUGHES has pointed out1 that replication could cease when a required standard of accuracy is attained, and that, from a sample size of n, the estimate, α, of the probable error of its mean “. . . decreases with ascending values of n until the minimum value permitted by the experimental conditions is reached”.
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CARRIER, N. Experimental Data and 'Sufficient' Accuracy. Nature 159, 167 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/159167b0
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