The Danger of Doing Power Calculations Using Only Descriptive Statistics

Steve Su
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Steve Su: Covance Pty Ltd, North Ryde, Australia

Biostatistics and Biometrics Open Access Journal, 2018, vol. 5, issue 4, 113-114

Abstract: Power calculations are bread and butter in the daily life of a clinical trial statistician and necessary for the determination of sample sizes in clinical trials. However, the use of descriptive statistics and assumption of Normality in conducting power calculations, while prevalent in practice, is not necessarily correct.

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Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.19080/BBOAJ.2018.05.555670

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