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Re: R: st: sampsi and percentages
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Ricardo Ovaldia <[email protected]>
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"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
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Re: R: st: sampsi and percentages
Date
Wed, 31 Aug 2011 07:29:34 -0700 (PDT)
Great. Thank you Carlo.
Ricardo Ovaldia, MS
Statistician
Oklahoma City, OK
----- Original Message -----
From: Carlo Lazzaro <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc:
Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 3:29 AM
Subject: R: st: sampsi and percentages
A report carrying the same title and made by the same Authors can be
downloaded at the following
http://www.stat.ucl.ac.be/Iapdp/tr2005/TR0505.pdf
Kindes Regards,
Carlo
-----Messaggio originale-----
Da: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] Per conto di MacLennan, Graeme
Inviato: mercoledì 31 agosto 2011 10.15
A: '[email protected]'
Oggetto: RE: st: sampsi and percentages
There is indeed, see:
Roula Tsonaka, Dimitris Rizopoulos and Emmanuel Lesaffre. Power and sample
size calculations for discrete bounded outcome scores. Statist. Med. 2006;
25:4241-4252
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2679
Graeme.
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nick Cox
Sent: 31 August 2011 09:05
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: sampsi and percentages
A beta distribution seems a natural candidate. There may well be published
work on power for betas.
Nick
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 8:08 PM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> Sure. I was partly in jest, but as a scientist I never feel
> constrained by the particular units in which data arrive, especially
> if they are not even metric units, let alone natural. Your example
> remains units-dependent in that numerator and denominator have quite
> different units. Not important unless this is also true of your real
> example.
>
> The best way forward for you is likely to be not looking for a canned
> approach but simulating datasets of different sizes under plausible
> generating processes and seeing what is or is not detectable.
>
> Nick
>
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 7:33 PM, Ricardo Ovaldia <[email protected]>
wrote:
>>
>> Thank you Nick. I was specificaly talking about how lenght and weight are
recorded in the auto data.
>>
>> gen r= length / weight
>> . sum r
>> Variable | Obs Mean Std. Dev. Min
>> Max
>> -------------+-------------------------------------------------------
>> -------------+-
>> r | 74 .0647308 .0102566 .0475524
>> .0872222
>>
>> The ratio is less that one in all observations!
>> So the statement was not incorrect.
>>
>> Regarding your second point: Yes it behaves as a proportion but I cannot
use a sample size calculation for proportion to power this study because
there is not a true denominator.
>> Which brings me back to my original issue of how to power this study.
>>
>> Ricardo.
>>
>> Ricardo Ovaldia, MS
>> Statistician
>> Oklahoma City, OK
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Nick Cox <[email protected]>
>> To: [email protected]
>> Cc:
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 10:02 AM
>> Subject: Re: st: sampsi and percentages
>>
>> Two points:
>>
>> 1. In terms of your example, length/weight is not always < 1. The
>> value of that ratio is crucially dependent on some choice of units of
>> measurement. Suppose I measure my (wife's) car's length in
>> centimetres and its weight (mass) in tonnes, for example.
>> You can call this pedantry but I react to incorrect statements!
>>
>> 2. More importantly, if something is bounded by (0,1) -- can we take
>> that pair of () literally as implying 0 < data < 1? -- then it will
>> behave like a proportion regardless of how the calculation was done.
>> For example, an average very near 0 can only be achieved if all
>> values are near 0 and so the variance will be very small, and
>> similarly for an average near 1. However, that may not help much.
>>
>> Nick
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Ricardo Ovaldia <[email protected]>
wrote:
>>>
>>> Thank you, but these are not proportions. They are intensity measures.
You can think of them as ratios of two continous things.
>>> For example with the auto data, they could be the ratio of car's length
to weight (length / weight) which is always between 0 and 1.
>>> Now less say that you want to compare these ratio between between
foreign and domestic cars.
>>>
>>> Ricardo
>>>
>>> Ricardo Ovaldia, MS
>>> Statistician
>>> Oklahoma City, OK
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Ariel Linden, DrPH" <[email protected]>
>>> To: [email protected]
>>> Cc:
>>> Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 7:51 AM
>>> Subject: re: st: sampsi and percentages
>>>
>>> Ricardo,
>>>
>>> I may be mistaken here, but it seems you have two proportions (if
>>> it's bounded between 0,1 then you have a numerator and a denominator
>>> for each group).
>>>
>>> If that is truly the case, you can use sampsi for proportions:
>>>
>>> . sampsi 0.25 0.4
>>>
>>> Estimated sample size for two-sample comparison of proportions
>>>
>>> Test Ho: p1 = p2, where p1 is the proportion in population 1
>>> and p2 is the proportion in population 2
>>> Assumptions:
>>>
>>> alpha = 0.0500 (two-sided)
>>> power = 0.9000
>>> p1 = 0.2500
>>> p2 = 0.4000
>>> n2/n1 = 1.00
>>>
>>> Estimated required sample sizes:
>>>
>>> n1 = 216
>>> n2 = 216
>>>
>>> I hope this helps
>>>
>>> Ariel
>>>
>>> Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 11:40:33 -0700 (PDT)
>>> From: Ricardo Ovaldia <[email protected]>
>>> Subject: st: sampsi and percentages
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I need to compute sample size and power for a study comparing two
>>> group on a measurement bounded by (0,1), (a measure of intensity).
>>> I was thinking about using -sampsi- to power on the difference of means.
>>> However, this seems strange to me, is there another way to power
>>> such comparison?
>>>
>
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