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Sample size calculations: should the emperor’s clothes be off the peg or made to measure?

Abstract

Ethics committees require estimates of sample size for all trials, but statistical calculations are no more accurate than estimates from historical data. Geoffrey Norman and colleagues propose some “one size fits all” numbers for different study designs

Authors

Norman G; Monteiro S; Salama S

Journal

The BMJ, Vol. 345, No. aug23 1,

Publisher

BMJ

Publication Date

August 23, 2012

DOI

10.1136/bmj.e5278

ISSN

0959-8138