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serial correlation

serial correlation Serial correlation is the tendency for repeated measurements from the same person to be related to one another across time rather than acting like independent observations.

Serial correlation is the tendency for repeated measurements from the same person to be related to one another across time rather than acting like independent observations. In N-of-1 data, failing to account for this time-linked pattern can lead simple statistical tests to give misleading results.