How to calculate sample size in animal studies?

Journal of Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapeutics

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 303-306

  Charan, Jaykaran ^a   Kantharia, N ^a  

^a GOVERNMENT MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Alpha error; animal studies; power; sample size

Indexed keywords

DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; INTERNET; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NONHUMAN; ONLINE SYSTEM; POWER ANALYSIS; PUBLICATION; REVIEW; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84886544464     PISSN: 0976500X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0976-500X.119726     Document Type: Review

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