Open Journal of Statistics

Vol.4 No.9(2014), Paper ID 50502, 16 pages

DOI:10.4236/ojs.2014.49066

 

Confirmatory Methods, or Huge Samples, Are Required to Obtain Power for the Evaluation of Theories

 

Irene Klugkist, Laura Post, Freek Haarhuis, Floryt van Wesel

 

Department of Methodology and Statistics, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Department of Methodology and Statistics, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Department of Educational Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology and Education, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Department of Methodology, Faculty of Psychology and Education, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

 

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Klugkist, I. , Post, L. , Haarhuis, F. and Wesel, F. (2014) Confirmatory Methods, or Huge Samples, Are Required to Obtain Power for the Evaluation of Theories. Open Journal of Statistics, 4, 710-725. doi: 10.4236/ojs.2014.49066.

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