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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biol Res Nurs. 2009 Mar 1;11(1):17–26. doi: 10.1177/1099800409332538

Table 3.

Effect Sizes and Numbers Needed to Power Future Studies

Analysis Effect Size Number Neededa
All subjects by diagnosisb 0.35 72
Caucasians by diagnosisb 0.40 64
African Americans by diagnosis 0.27 100
a

The number of subjects needed in each group to achieve a power of 0.80. Assumes equal numbers in each group.

b

Significant finding in current analyses.