- performs prospective power and sample size analyses for a variety of goals, such as the following:
- determining the sample size required to get a significant result with adequate probability (power)
- characterizing the power of a study to detect a meaningful effect
- conducting what-if analyses to assess sensitivity of the power or required sample size to other factors
- A variety of statistical analyses are covered:
- t tests, equivalence tests, and confidence intervals for means
- tests, equivalence tests, and confidence intervals for binomial proportions
- multiple regression
- tests of correlation and partial correlation
- one-way analysis of variance
- rank tests for comparing two survival curves
- logistic regression with binary response
- Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney (rank-sum) test
- produces tabular and graphical output
- uses ODS to create a SAS data set corresponding to any table
For further details see the SAS/STAT User's Guide:
The POWER Procedure
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