How to calculate sample size in animal studies?

Calculation of sample size is one of the important component of design of any research including animal studies. If a researcher select less number of animals it may lead to missing of any significant difference even if it exist in population and if more number of animals selected then it may lead t...

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Autores principales: Charan, Jaykaran, Kantharia, N. D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013
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Educational Forum
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3826013/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24250214
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0976-500X.119726
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description Calculation of sample size is one of the important component of design of any research including animal studies. If a researcher select less number of animals it may lead to missing of any significant difference even if it exist in population and if more number of animals selected then it may lead to unnecessary wastage of resources and may lead to ethical issues. In this article, on the basis of review of literature done by us we suggested few methods of sample size calculations for animal studies.
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spelling pubmed-38260132013-11-18 How to calculate sample size in animal studies? Charan, Jaykaran Kantharia, N. D. J Pharmacol Pharmacother Educational Forum Calculation of sample size is one of the important component of design of any research including animal studies. If a researcher select less number of animals it may lead to missing of any significant difference even if it exist in population and if more number of animals selected then it may lead to unnecessary wastage of resources and may lead to ethical issues. In this article, on the basis of review of literature done by us we suggested few methods of sample size calculations for animal studies. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3826013/ /pubmed/24250214 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0976-500X.119726 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapeutics 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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