In ongoing research, at a given time some subjects will have produced more scores than others. It may be desirable to conduct a snapshot analysis of the available data to compare the efficacy of the treatments being administered. For balanced designs, a weighted-means analysis which incorporates nesting is proposed, and an example is given.
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