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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jan 30.
Published in final edited form as: J Neurosci Methods. 2015 Oct 17;258:16–23. doi: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2015.10.004

Table 2.

Power Analysis. These are estimates of sample sizes needed to distinguish a difference of certain magnitudes in each of four measures at day 28 after stroke. Power analysis used 5% alpha, 50% beta and the standard deviation and mean of day 28 data normalized to baseline.

Effect Size Approximate Sample Size (# of Mice)

Success Rate Highest Force in
Trial
Latency to
Success
Latency to Pull
50% 9 2 3 3

40% 15 3 5 5

30% 26 5 8 8

20% 59 12 18 18

10% 236 48 72 72