 Sample Size
"Sample Size" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The number of units (persons, animals, patients, specified circumstances, etc.) in a population to be studied. The sample size should be big enough to have a high likelihood of detecting a true difference between two groups. (From Wassertheil-Smoller, Biostatistics and Epidemiology, 1990, p95)
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D018401
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E05.318.780.762 E05.581.500.902 N05.715.360.780.692 N06.850.520.445.762
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| Concept/Terms |
Sample Size- Sample Size
- Sample Sizes
- Size, Sample
- Sizes, Sample
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Sample Size" by people in this website by year, and whether "Sample Size" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Sample Size" by people in Profiles.
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Poola AS, Oyetunji TA, Holcomb GW, St Peter SD. Maturation of effect size during enrollment of prospective randomized trials. J Surg Res. 2018 03; 223:34-38.
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Kluding PM, Denton J, Jamison TR, Brooks W, Blackwell K, Lantos JD, Waitman LR, McMahon TM, Choudhary A, Bott MJ, Greiner A, Klaus S, O'Brien-Ladner A, Aaronson LS, Burns J, Barohn R. Frontiers: Integration of a Research Participant Registry with Medical Clinic Registration and Electronic Health Records. Clin Transl Sci. 2015 Oct; 8(5):405-11.
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Foster BJ, Warady BA. Clinical research in pediatric nephrology: challenges, and strategies to address them. J Nephrol. 2009 Nov-Dec; 22(6):685-93.
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