I have performed a number of replicated tests by growing coral fragments in close contact of different ramets of Acropora cervicornis in order to see if their tissues fuse or reject each other. For each pairwise combination (for instance ramet#1 with ramet#3) I want to check consistency (i.e. if they always accept or reject each other, or if results vary across replicated tests). I am wondering how to obtain a value of viability of the method based on that consistency (i.e. if they were all consistent then the viability would be 100%) but there are instances in which only 4/5 tests are consistent in a specific pairwise combination. Also, in the case some fragments are lost and there are not 5 replicates but 4, but still consistency is 4/4, I guess this should not be given the same weight that those that are 5/5 or 6/6, even though is still 100%, how to take number of replicates into account then?

Would really appreciate any thoughts, thank you!

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