Simulating the Power of Statistical Tests: A Collection of R Examples

2021/10/19 by Florian Wickelmaier, Wickelmaier, Florian
Computer Science · Decision Sciences · Mathematics · #Applications (stat.AP) #Data Analysis with R #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Meta-analysis and systematic reviews #Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2110.09836

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Abstract

This paper illustrates how to calculate the power of a statistical test by computer simulation. It provides R code for power simulations of several classical inference procedures including one- and two-sample t tests, chi-squared tests, regression, and analysis of variance.

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