Power for studies with random group sizes

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1137-1144

  Ambrosius, Walter T ^a   Mahnken, Jonathan D ^b  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

ANOVA; Beta Dirichlet; Binomial multinomial; Chi square test

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EFFECT SIZE; POWER ANALYSIS; SAMPLE SIZE; STUDENT T TEST;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BAYES THEOREM; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; OBSERVATION; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 77951524619     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3873     Document Type: Article

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