POWERCAL: Stata module to perform general power and sample size calculations

Roger Newson

Statistical Software Components from Boston College Department of Economics

Abstract: powercal performs general power and sample size calculations, storing the result in a new variable. powercal can calculate any one of the number of sampling units, power, alpha (significance level), delta (difference in parameter value to be detected), or the standard deviation (SD) of the influence function. (The SD of the influence function is defined as the expected standard error of the sample difference multiplied by the number of sampling units.) Any of these 5 quantities can be calculated from the other 4. -powercal takes, as input, expressions delivering variables containing the 4 input quantities, and creates, as output, a variable containing the output quantity. These variables can then be plotted against each other, giving colleagues a view, at a glance, of the trade-offs involved.

Language: Stata
Requires: Stata version 10.0
Keywords: power; sample size (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001-08-20, Revised 2012-03-31
Note: This module may be installed from within Stata by typing "ssc install powercal". The module is made available under terms of the GPL v3 (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt). Windows users should not attempt to download these files with a web browser.
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