Example 1: The population from which samples are selected is {1,2,3,4,5,6}. This population has a mean of 3.5 and a standard deviation of 1.70783. The next display shows a histogram of the population.

Back in the day, we learned in statistics that you need a sample size of at least 2% of the size of population to make statistically significant conclusions about the behavior of the population. In ...

Power analyses and sample size calculations are important parts of many research projects. Often, before data are even collected, it is necessary to calculate and justify the required sample size for ...

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series D (The Statistician), Vol. 41, No. 4 (1992), pp. 389-397 (9 pages) The problem of sample size determination in the context of Bayesian analysis, ...

The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of sample size estimations for the most frequent type of group studies that result in continuous, binary and ordered categorical outcomes. In recent ...

In just about any discussion of a poll about the very close presidential race between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, you’ll hear ...