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Unassigned animals

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When you choose to manually assign animals to treatment groups (see Assigning animals to the treatment groups) ANY-maze will just create the requisite group and animal records without specifying which animal belongs to which group. This means the system will know that the experiment includes, for example, 4 treatment groups and 24 animals but, as the animals haven't been assigned to the groups, it won't be able to say which animal belongs to which group - so the animals, in this case, are said to be unassigned.

The fact that animals are unassigned is almost irrelevant to ANY-maze - you can still test them and you can still access their results - I've only mentioned it because on the treatments pane ANY-maze will include a special, group called Unassigned, for such animals - see figure 1.

Figure 1. While an experiment includes unassigned animals ANY-maze includes a special group for them on the treatments pane.

Of course, as soon as you've manually assigned all the animals to treatments, the Unassigned group will disappear from the treatments list.

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