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. 2021 Jun 22;18(13):6689. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18136689

Table 7.

This table shows the minimum sample size required in each group to achieve the given power for detecting the inequality in population proportions when the level of significance is α = 0.05 in all cases. This is for a two-sided two-sample proportion test.

p1 p2 Sample Size in Each Group
(Power = 0.70)
Sample Size in Each Group
(Power = 0.80)
Sample Size in Each Group
(Power = 0.90)
0.10 0.15 540 686 918
0.10 0.20 157 199 266
0.10 0.25 79 100 133
0.20 0.25 861 1094 1464
0.20 0.30 231 294 392
0.20 0.35 109 138 185
0.30 0.35 1083 1377 1842
0.30 0.40 281 356 477
0.30 0.45 128 163 217