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From   Jeannette Wicks-Lim <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   st: Sample size question
Date   Wed, 08 Dec 2004 11:38:41 -0500

Hi,

I have what may be a rather silly question.

I'm used to working with very large data sets in my regression analyses, but I've encountered a situation where my N is 24, and my k (number of independent vars) is 9. I may be able to expand the sample to N=36, but in any case, how do you decide when a sample is "too" small to be useful? Does it just depend on your results (e.g., standard errors are really large)?

Thanks!
J
Jeannette Wicks-Lim
Department of Economics
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
(413) 577-0820
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