When repeated measures are not independent, sample data can be used to estimate the average covariance among the measures, and this can be used to calculate an appropriate estimate of the variance in a sum of measures. When such an estimate of the variance is employed, a χ2 statistic can be used to test the significance of differences in repeated, related measures applied to different samples.
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