A simple method for calculating power based on a prior trial

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 63, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 992-997

  Borm, George F ^a   Bloem, Bastiaan R ^b   Munneke, Marten ^b   Teerenstra, Steven ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Clinical trial; P value; Power; Precision; Sample size; Test

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LOG RANK TEST; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POWER ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANK SUM TEST; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STUDENT T TEST; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PROBABILITY; SAMPLE SIZE; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; PROBABILITY; RESEARCH DESIGN; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 77955665250     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2009.10.011     Document Type: Article

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