Calculating sample size. Alpha, Beta, Mu and Sigma - It's all Greek

Anaesthesia

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 462-464

  Choi, S W ^a   Tran, D H D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

INHALATION ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ANESTHESIA LEVEL; ANESTHETIC EQUIPMENT; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT ERROR; NULL HYPOTHESIS; RESPONSE VARIABLE; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TWO TAILED TEST; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); STATISTICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84954101961     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/anae.13369     Document Type: Article

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