Sample size calculations

Nephron - Clinical Practice

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Noordzij, Marlies ^a   Dekker, Friedo W ^b   Zoccali, Carmine ^c   Jager, Kitty J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c BIANCHI MELACRINO MORELLI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Nephrology; Power; Sample size; Statistics; Study design

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROPOIETIN; HEMOGLOBIN; PLACEBO;

ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIALYSIS; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; HUMANS; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 79551565993     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16602110     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000322830     Document Type: Article

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