Setting sample size to ensure narrow confidence intervals for precise estimation of population values

Nursing Research

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 148-153

  Corty, Eric W ^a   Corty, Robert W ^b  

^a BEHREND COLLEGE   (United States)

^b HARVARD COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

confidence intervals; effect size; parameter estimation; power; sample size; smallest benefit of clinical importance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EQUIPMENT; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NURSING RESEARCH; REPRODUCIBILITY; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EFFECT MODIFIERS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NURSING RESEARCH; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 79952536428     PISSN: 00296562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NNR.0b013e318209785a     Document Type: Article

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