Recommendations in pre-registrations and internal review board proposals promote formal power analyses but do not increase sample size.
In this preregistered study, we investigated whether the statistical power of a study is higher when researchers are asked to make a formal power analysis before collecting data. We compared the sample size descriptions from two sources: (i) a sample of pre-registrations created according to the gui...
Main Authors: | Marjan Bakker, Coosje L S Veldkamp, Olmo R van den Akker, Marcel A L M van Assen, Elise Crompvoets, How Hwee Ong, Jelte M Wicherts |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2020-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0236079 |
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