Table 3. Results of the Monte-Carlo simulations.
| Fixed effect (%) | Number of fragments | Number of sections | Probability of detecting the effect (%) |
| 50 | 20 or 10 or 5 | 40 or 20 or 10 | 100 |
| 25 | 20 | 40 | 100 |
| 25 | 20 | 20 | 100 |
| 25 | 20 | 10 | 99 |
| 25 | 10 | 40 | 100 |
| 25 | 10 | 20 | 98 |
| 25 | 10 | 10 | 93 |
| 25 | 5 | 40 | 94 |
| 25 | 5 | 20 | 87 |
| 25 | 5 | 10 | 74 |
| 10 | 20 | 40 | 84 |
| 10 | 20 | 20 | 71 |
| 10 | 20 | 10 | 54 |
| 10 | 10 | 40 | 70 |
| 10 | 10 | 20 | 53 |
| 10 | 10 | 10 | 39 |
| 10 | 5 | 40 | 56 |
| 10 | 5 | 20 | 44 |
| 10 | 5 | 10 | 29 |
The probability of detecting an effect on the primordial follicular density (i.e., power) was calculated with the fixed effects arbitrarily set at 50, 25 and 10% and a confidence level of alpha = 0.05 for various combinations of the numbers of ovary fragments and sections per fragment.