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Post hoc power analysis: is it an informative and meaningful analysis?

Power analysis is a key component for planning prospective studies such as clinical trials. However, some journals in biomedical and psychosocial sciences ask for power analysis for data already collected and analysed before accepting manuscripts for publication. In this report, post hoc power analy...

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Autores principales: Zhang, Yiran, Hedo, Rita, Rivera, Anna, Rull, Rudolph, Richardson, Sabrina, Tu, Xin M
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6738696/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31552383
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/gpsych-2019-100069
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Sumario:Power analysis is a key component for planning prospective studies such as clinical trials. However, some journals in biomedical and psychosocial sciences ask for power analysis for data already collected and analysed before accepting manuscripts for publication. In this report, post hoc power analysis for retrospective studies is examined and the informativeness of understanding the power for detecting significant effects of the results analysed, using the same data on which the power analysis is based, is scrutinised. Monte Carlo simulation is used to investigate the performance of posthoc power analysis.