Section outline

  • Lecture: Sample Size, P-Values and Confidence Intervals

    An introduction to the concepts and information needed to estimate sample sizes for various types of studies. It includes suggestions for making more affordably sized studies.

    Faculty: Steve Cummings

    Location:      MB-Genentech Hall 106, Byers Auditorium

    • Session Slides:

    • Cummings Sample Size for DCR 2015 File

    • Session Audio/Video Recording (Access restricted to registered students):

    • Required Reading:

      DCR-4 Chpater 5: Getting Ready to Estimate Sample Size

      DCR-4 Chapter 6: Estimating Sample Size and Power

    • Bacchetti 2010: Current sample size conventions: Flaws, harms and alternatives File
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    • Optional Reading:

    • Statistical Interpretation of Data (Chapter from Goldman Textbook of Medicine, 24th ed, by Tom and Chuck). Note material in green is included only in the online text, hence it is not what is most important. File
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