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. 2015 Oct 8;109(3):92–97. doi: 10.1177/0141076815610574

Table 1.

Margin of error for an observed correlation coefficient of zero.

Sample sizea Margin of error (95% confidence interval for an observed correlation coefficient of zero) Minimum observed correlation coefficient at which p < 0.05
2000 −0.04 to 0.04 0.04
1000 −0.07 to 0.07 0.07
160 −0.16 to 0.16 0.16
100 −0.20 to 0.20 0.20
50 −0.28 to 0.28 0.28
a

For an ecological study of healthcare organisations, this would be the number of organisations and not the number of individuals.