Erratum: Sample size calculations: Basic principles and common pitfalls (Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation (2010) DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfp732);Sample size calculations: Basic principles and common pitfalls

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1388-1393

  Noordzij, Marlies ^a   Tripepi, Giovanni ^b   Dekker, Friedo W ^c   Zoccali, Carmine ^b   Tanck, Michael W ^a   Jager, Kitty J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Nephrology; Power; Sample size; Statistics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NEPHROLOGY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POST HOC ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SAMPLE SIZE; SAMPLE SIZE CALCULATION; SAMPLING ERROR; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

EID: 77951698313     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfq563     Document Type: Erratum

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