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The data I have collected for my experiment includes measuring each of the sunflower plants shoot height and the maximum basal diameter (mm). The systematic sampling strategy that I used allows for easy data collection and I plan to continue to use this approach. However, my three-sunflower plant/ sampling units that are located in each of the pots do not have enough distance between each other to be considered independent from one another. It would have been better if I had used individual plant pots for each of the sunflower plant replicates, so that they are considered independent from one another.
how far will they apart, did you think about this during sample design? overall, sounds like sampling went well.