on 18/02/2003 5:11 pm, Ricardo Ovaldia at [email protected] wrote:
> and furthermore I did
> not need this information because his friend (another
> "statistician") told him that with 8 observations per
> group he could detect a difference of 1.5 standard
> deviations with 80% power.
. sampsi 0 1.5, sd(1) n(8)
Estimated power for two-sample comparison of means
Test Ho: m1 = m2, where m1 is the mean in population 1
and m2 is the mean in population 2
Assumptions:
alpha = 0.0500 (two-sided)
m1 = 0
m2 = 1.5
sd1 = 1
sd2 = 1
sample size n1 = 8
n2 = 8
n2/n1 = 1.00
Estimated power:
power = 0.8508
A different of 1.5 standard deviations is very large indeed. Yes, the power
is 85%, but the Mann Whitney statistic is 86%
. mwstati 1.5 1 1, i
Mann-Whitney statistic for this situation is: 0.8556
That is, the probability that an observation in group 2 will be higher than
an observation in group 1 is 0.8556.
Two comments:
1. The minimum clinically significant difference in Cox2 may well be less
than 1.5 SD and
2. An 80% power is an unacceptably high risk of failure. I don't get out of
bed for less than 90%.
Ronan M Conroy ([email protected])
Lecturer in Biostatistics
Royal College of Surgeons
Dublin 2, Ireland
+353 1 402 2431 (fax 2764)
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