Practical Uses Of Statistical Power In Business Research Studies

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In particular, the author suggests that power information be used as an integral part of the decision as to whether a particular alternative hypothesis should continue to be pursued experimentally when analysis has so far led to failure to reject the null hypothesis...
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An important use of power is in the planning of sample sizes prior to gathering data used to evaluate statistical hypotheses. A number of business statistics texts illustrate this use of power (Anderson, Sweeney, & Williams, 1999; Daniel & Terrell, 1995)...
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