Power analyses and sample size calculations are important parts of many research projects. Often, before data are even collected, it is necessary to calculate and justify the required sample size for ...

Precedents set in the historic Barr case continue to raise questions over suitable sample-size criteria. The sample size needed to investigate an out-of-specification (OOS) result continues to be a ...

If a tax impact study, derived from observations on income tax returns, is to provide tax estimates with the same margin of error and significance level for each ...

Conventionally, sample size calculations are viewed as calculations determining the right number of subjects needed for a study. Such calculations follow the classical paradigm: "for a difference X, I ...

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