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. 2015 Oct 14;15:86. doi: 10.1186/s12874-015-0070-6

Table 2.

Statistical power of the pre-post test T PP (18): σ μ = 1

k = 5 k = 10
Total N Δ PP C α φ PP φ˜PP φ PP φ˜PP
30 0.4 0.5 0.341 0.337 0.341 0.310
0.6 0.475 0.459 0.475 0.458
0.7 0.658 0.626 0.658 0.649
0.8 0.873 0.849 0.873 0.830
0.9 0.996 0.997 0.996 0.995
50 0.3 0.5 0.323 0.309 0.323 0.296
0.6 0.451 0.424 0.451 0.433
0.7 0.630 0.633 0.630 0.614
0.8 0.851 0.849 0.851 0.844
0.9 0.994 0.995 0.994 0.992

Note: Total N: total number of subjects; k: number of items; ΔPP=δPP/σμ; C α: Cronbach alpha; φ PP: theoretical power (20); φ˜PP: simulation-based empirical power