Indicate the strategy for deciding the order of measurements

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Information crucial to the internal validity of the experiment is missing. The field ‘measurement order strategy’ is considered compulsory.

Indicate how the order in which individual experimental units are measured will be decided. Examples include randomising, systematically alternating between groups (e.g. measuring one experimental unit from each different group and then a second experimental unit from each different group etc), by experimental group (i.e. measuring all experimental units from one group first, then all experimental units from another group etc).

The order in which you measure animals, experimental units or samples should be randomised if possible to reduce bias.

The allocation section on the EDA website has information on different ways to generate randomisation sequences.
 
The measurement section on the EDA website has examples of how randomisation and blinding / masking can be used together to reduce bias when taking measurements.