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. 2013 May 6;18(6):760–767. doi: 10.1634/theoncologist.2012-0386

Table 2.

Advantages and disadvantages of prospective and retrospective research designs

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aStatistical power is a function of the frequency of an outcome, sample size, and effect size. Thus, it will vary across studies and within an individual study across different outcomes.