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Treatment coding

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Although each treatment group you enter is given a name, ANY-maze will also give it a single letter code.

The reason ANY-maze uses these codes is to allow you to run experiments 'blind'. When performing a blind experiment ANY-maze will randomly code the treatments so the experimenter won't actually know which treatment is which. Furthermore, until the experiment is complete, the system will only refer to an individual animal's treatment by its code, again so the experimenter won't know which treatment group the animal belongs to.

Of course, someone will probably need to know which group is which, perhaps so they can label treatments with their codes. To see the codes for the treatments you simply need to select the Reveal treatment coding button. When viewing the Treatment groups spreadsheet, this will cause an extra column to be added to the spreadsheet showing each treatment's code; to hide the codes you just need to click the same button again. When viewing the Animals spreadsheet, this will cause both the treatment code and the treatment name to be shown for each animal.

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