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ERIC Number: EJ886302
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2010-Jun
Pages: 3
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ISSN: ISSN-1043-4046
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Explorations in Statistics: Power
Curran-Everett, Douglas
Advances in Physiology Education, v34 n2 p41-43 Jun 2010
Learning about statistics is a lot like learning about science: the learning is more meaningful if you can actively explore. This fifth installment of "Explorations in Statistics" revisits power, a concept fundamental to the test of a null hypothesis. Power is the probability that we reject the null hypothesis when it is false. Four things affect power: the probability with which we are willing to reject--by mistake--a true null hypothesis, the magnitude of the difference we want to be able to detect, the variability of the underlying population, and the number of observations in our sample. In an application to an Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee or to the National Institutes of Health, we define power to justify the sample size we propose.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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