Statistical power, sample sizes, and the software to calculate them easily

BioScience

Volumn 56, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 607-612

  Lewis, Keith P ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Power analysis; Sample size; Software; Statistics; Type II error

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745925567     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1641/0006-3568(2006)56[607:SPSSAT]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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