Small vaccination experiments with binary outcome: The paradox of increasing power with decreasing sample size and/or increasing imbalance

Biometrical Journal

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 583-600

  Duchateau, Luc ^a,c   Janssen, Paul ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^b HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c EORTC DATA CENTER   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Expected power; Fisher exact test; Randomisation test; Unconditional test; Vaccination

Indexed keywords

VACCINES;

APPROPRIATE DESIGNS; CONTROL GROUPS; EXPECTED POWER; FISHER EXACT TEST; POWER; RANDOMIZATION TESTS; SAMPLE SIZES; UNCONDITIONAL TESTS; VACCINATION;

ANIMALS;

EID: 0033449521     PISSN: 03233847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-4036(199909)41:5<583::AID-BIMJ583>3.0.CO;2-S     Document Type: Article

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