How to Calculate Sample Size for Different Study Designs in Medical Research?

Calculation of exact sample size is an important part of research design. It is very important to understand that different study design need different method of sample size calculation and one formula cannot be used in all designs. In this short review we tried to educate researcher regarding vario...

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Autores principales: Charan, Jaykaran, Biswas, Tamoghna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3775042/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24049221
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0253-7176.116232
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description Calculation of exact sample size is an important part of research design. It is very important to understand that different study design need different method of sample size calculation and one formula cannot be used in all designs. In this short review we tried to educate researcher regarding various method of sample size calculation available for different study designs. In this review sample size calculation for most frequently used study designs are mentioned. For genetic and microbiological studies readers are requested to read other sources.
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spelling pubmed-37750422013-09-18 How to Calculate Sample Size for Different Study Designs in Medical Research? Charan, Jaykaran Biswas, Tamoghna Indian J Psychol Med Review Article Calculation of exact sample size is an important part of research design. It is very important to understand that different study design need different method of sample size calculation and one formula cannot be used in all designs. In this short review we tried to educate researcher regarding various method of sample size calculation available for different study designs. In this review sample size calculation for most frequently used study designs are mentioned. For genetic and microbiological studies readers are requested to read other sources. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3775042/ /pubmed/24049221 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0253-7176.116232 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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