R help - Sep 2003 - Off Topic: Good reference for sample size calculations

Hi All,

This is off topic, but we're drawing a blank here..
> In a presentation I'll be giving next week, I want to include a
reference
> to a good general text on computing sample sizes for standard experiments.
> Can anyone recommend a good book to use for this purpose?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Greg

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Jacob Cohen's book "Statistical Power Analysis for the Behavioral
Sciences" is one.



 
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Hi All,

This is off topic, but we're drawing a blank here..
> In a presentation I'll be giving next week, I want to include a
reference
> to a good general text on computing sample sizes for standard experiments.
> Can anyone recommend a good book to use for this purpose?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Greg

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On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 07:37, Warnes, Gregory R wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> This is off topic, but we're drawing a blank here..
> 
> > In a presentation I'll be giving next week, I want to include a
reference
> > to a good general text on computing sample sizes for standard
experiments.
> > Can anyone recommend a good book to use for this purpose?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > -Greg

Greg,

How about:

Design and Analysis of Clinical Trials
Concepts and Methodologies
Shein-Chung Chow and Jen-pei Liu
Wiley, 1998 

Chapter 10: Sample Size Determination
Pages 424 - 482

Amazon.com link:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/047113404X/

HTH,

Marc Schwartz

Following should help: 

1. "Sample Size Methodology (Statistical Modeling and Decision
Science)"
        by Raghavarao and Desu (1990)
         Academic Press.

2. Russell Lenth's monograph - Some Practical Guide to Effective Sample 
Size
        http://www.stat.uiowa.edu/techrep/tr303.pdf 

3. Introduction to Sample Size determination and Power Analysis for 
Clinical Trials
        John Lachin, Controlled Clinical Trials, 2, 93-113 (1981)

4. Evaluation of Sample Size and Power for Analyses of Survival with 
Allowance for Nonuniform Patient Entry, Losses to Follow-up, 
Noncompliance, and Stratification
        John Lachin & Mary Foulkes, Biometrics, 42, 507-519, September 
1986

Partha





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Hi All,

This is off topic, but we're drawing a blank here..
> In a presentation I'll be giving next week, I want to include a 
reference
> to a good general text on computing sample sizes for standard 
experiments.
> Can anyone recommend a good book to use for this purpose?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Greg

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