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The Control of Sample Size for Normal Preparative Column Operation... 

This latter value (tp) is given by power analysis software ancl can be obtained as a power curve. Figure 11.24 shows a series of power curves giving the samples sizes required to determine a range of differences. From these curves, for example, it can be seen that a sample size of 3 will be able to detect a difference of 0.28 with a power of 0.7 (70% of time) but that a sample size of 7 would be needed to increase this power to 90%. In general, power analysis software can be used to determine sample sizes for optimal experimental procedures. 

The value of spruce-oil chemistry in sorting out problems of hybridization and introgression—major factors in Picea taxonomy—was succinctly summarized by von Rudloff who defined three situations (1) Terpene variation is limited such that it is not possible to use these characters in studies of introgression this is the case in eastern North America where the ranges of black spruce and red spruce overlap. (2) Sufficient variation in terpene profiles exists for the compounds to be useful markers in systematic studies as seen in white spruce. Brewer s spruce, and Sitka spruce. (3) Tree-to-tree variation in terpene content is so variable that use in che-mosystematic studies is precluded, or at least requires very large sample sizes for statistical reliability, as seen with Engelmann s spruce. 

Power Analysis for ANOVA Designs can be used to calculate sample size for one and two-way factorial designs with fixed effects http //evall.crc.uiuc.e du/ fp o wer. html/... 

The dependence of Mp" on sample size for the ethanol-soluble fraction is sumnarized by the solid lines in Figure 7. For both column sets, the apparent MW of the principal peak increases by nearly an order of magnitude as the mass of the injected sample is increased from one to four mg. In contrast, the ethanol-insoluble fraction exhibits a rather narrow chromatogram... 

From an empirical viewpoint, the chief difference lies in the size of the aliquot that must be carried through the procedure. A typical sample size for a chromatographic method is 20 g. This is extracted, for illustration, in 100 mL of solvent. A volume of... 

The sample size for any biological sample depends on two criteria (1) the amount of sample needed by the analytical laboratory and (2) the portion of the excretion pattern that the researcher is interested in observing. 

The end of the 1980 s saw the application of TIMS to U-series measurement (Chen et al. 1986 Edwards et al. 1987 Goldstein et al. 1989). This represented a major technological advance. Analysis time was reduced from one week to several hours, sample sizes for many carbonate or volcanic rock samples decreased from -10-100 pg to 0.1-1 ug U or Th, measurement precision improved from percent to permil levels, and for the decay series, the dating range was extended from 350,000 years to... 

More recently, an analysis of pooled data from seven safety and efficacy trials of duloxetine did not find any differences in efficacy in depressed Hispanics compared with Whites (Lewis-Fernandez etal, 2006). Unfortunately, the sample size for the Hispanic group was very small in comparison to the White cohort (n = 58 White, n = 748), and most likely underpowered to detect any differences. Also, the Hispanic group included Mexicans and Mexican Americans along with Central and South Americans (percentage breakdown is unknown). 

TABLE 68 Typical Sample Size for Radiocarbon Dating... 

The experimental design used was nested plots. Main plots had a total area of 100 m2 and were rectangular plots. The criterion used to determine sample size for each stratum was an estimation of AGB of trees with a diameter at breast height (dbh) >10 cm during pre-sampling (90% probability and 20% mean standard error). 

With the analysis above, we can answer some important practical questions related to MFEP calculations. Should an MFEP calculation be used at all How many stages are needed How should the intermediates be formulated What is the necessary sample size for each stage ... 

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Moisture is difficult to determine accurately because a sample can lose moisture on exposure to the atmosphere, particularly when reducing the sample size for analysis. To... 

There are various other ways of examining the variate in question in this case. Let us first examine simple one-way ANOVA of the variate by sex as in Table 16.16. In neither of the two cases was there any indication of significant treatment differences at any reasonable level. Because the two sexes did not show any pretreatment differences based on the two-factor analysis of the covariate, let us combine the two sexes and analyze the data by one-way ANOVA as in Table 16.17. In this case, because of the increased sample sizes for combining the two sexes, there was indication of some treatment differences (p = 0.0454). Unfortunately, this analysis assumes that because there were no pretreatment differences between the two sexes, that pattern will hold during the posttreatment period. That often may not be the case because of biological reasons. 

Three different detection methods (gas chromatography with electron capture, mass spectrometric and atomic emission detectors) have been compared for the determination of polychlorobiphenyls in highly contaminated marine sediments [74], Only atomic emission detection in the chlorine-selective mode provided excellent polychlorobiphenyl profiles without interferences. However, the lower sensitivity of the atomic emission detector, compared to the other two detectors required a 10 to 20g sample size for most analyses. 

Table 11. Intraclass correlations, sample sizes for MZA, MZT, DZAand DZT twins and model fitting parameter estimates for measures of occupational status by sex...

It is not, however, that the males who contributed EPC ejaculates simply had a higher masturbation rate. Although the sample size for IPCs from these men is small and the heterogeneity not significant (P = 0.24), the men who contributed EPCs show a pattern of abstinence times similar to that by the total contributors (EPCs 22 5 h IPCs 39+12 h Masturbations 46 + 9 h N = 20, 10 and 44 respectively). Moreover, the masturbation rate for EPC contributors (every 46 h) is about the same as for men without partners (every 42 4 h N = 27). Bisexuals, however, maintain a higher rate (every 28 + 7 h N = 5) with an abstinence interval about the same as that which precedes EPCs. 

Sample size for each test adjusted to represent the accumulated components from 15 L of water. Salmonella fyphimurium strains, TA98, TAIOO, TA1535, TA1537 and TA 1538 were used. Each sample was tested with and without the addition of microsomal fraction of activated rat liver designated S-9. 

Between the early 1950s, when the dual viscous-flow mass spectrometer was introduced by Nier and the mid 1980s only minor modifications have been made on the hardware of commercial mass spectrometers. Special efforts have been undertaken in the past years to reduce the sample size for isotope measurements. This has led to a modification of the classic dual inlet technique to the continuous-flow isotope ratio monitoring mass spectrometer in which the gas to be analyzed is a trace gas in a stream of carrier gas, which achieves viscous-flow conditions. Today, the majority of gas mass spectrometers are sold with the continuous flow system, instead of the dual inlet system. 

In most cases we will be interested in determining the sample size for a given type-11 error, which is typically fixed at values of 0.1 or 0.2. 

There are of course practical considerations in clinical research. We may find patient recruitment difficult in single centre studies and this is one of the major drivers to multicentre and multinational trials. Alternatively, we may need to relax the inclusion/exclusion criteria or lengthen the recruitment period. Unfortunately, while each of these may indeed increase the supply of patients they may also lead to increased variability that in turn will require more patients. A second issue is the size of the CRD which, if it is too small, will require a large number of patients. In such circumstances we may need to consider the use of surrogate endpoints (Section S.3.3.2). Finally, the standard deviation may be large and this can have a considerable impact on the sample size - for example, a doubling of the standard deviation leads to a four times increase in the... 

Sample sizes for clinical trials are discussed more fully elsewhere in this book and should be established in discussion with a statistician. Sample sizes should, however, be sufficient to be 90% certain of detecting a statistically significant difference between treatments, based on a set of predetermined primary variables. This means that trials utilising an active control will generally be considerably larger than placebo-controlled studies, in order to exclude a Type II statistical error (i.e. the failure to demonstrate a difference where one exists). Thus, in areas where a substantial safety database is required, for example, hypertension, it may be appropriate to have in the programme a preponderance of studies using a positive control. 

Overall sampling quality — quantitative analysis. For dynamical trajectories, the "structural decorrelation time" analysis [10] can estimate the slowest timescale affecting significant configuration-space populations and hence yield the effective sample size. For non-dynamical simulations, a variance analysis based on multiple runs is called for [1]. Analyzing the variance in populations of approximate physical states appears to be promising as a benchmark metric. 

We decided to examine only one sample size for the design, 4096. Abt et al. (6) examined sample size, among other factors, when studying sequential screening. Yi et al. (20) also used a sample size of 4096 when studying the optimization of a statistical analysis method for this dataset. Both studies indicated that relatively small sample sizes of 5000 to 10,000 compounds could be used to produce useful trees. Clearly, large sample sizes should lead to better... 

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