What does it tell you about sample size if you try and estimate it for 80% power?
http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/dae/proportionpow.htm
Cam
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> Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 10:50:39 -0700
> From: [email protected]
> Subject: st: sampsi and power
> To: [email protected]
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> Dear all,
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> With this question I will demonstrate my basic misunderstanding of power analyses.
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> A journal reviewer has asked for a power calculation of a chi-square 2x2 table from a submitted manuscript. Although I am aware of the futility of doing power analyses after the fact, and will most likely not include it in the manuscript, I was intrigued by the results. The odds ratio from the table is significant 3.284 (95%CI=1.145 to 9.419). Plugging the observed percentages and sample sizes in -sampsi- I get power=0.624. I was expecting the power to be higher. Although I suspect that this is correct, I am having a hard time explaining why I do not get 80% or better?
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> Thank you,
> Ricardo.
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> Ricardo Ovaldia, MS
> Statistician
> Oklahoma City, OK
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