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The timing of the EDF announcement, days before an anticipated intervention, may show that the big suppliers are content with the prospect of a price cap, according to an energy industry source.
For a feasibility study, sample size is not established based on power to detect an anticipated intervention impact.
A required information size and adjusted thresholds for significance cannot be calculated without estimations of an anticipated intervention effect.
Most trials already include a predetermined sample size calculation, which includes estimation of an anticipated intervention effect.
If no former trials have been conducted, an anticipated intervention effect cannot be estimated based on empirical high quality data.
There is increasing awareness that meta-analyses require a sufficiently large information size to detect or reject an anticipated intervention effect.
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A sample size calculation estimates the number of trial participants necessary to demonstrate or discard a specific a priori anticipated intervention effect with specified error probabilities [ 16].
Calculate and report Bayes factor for the primary outcome/s based on a pre-specified anticipated intervention effect (same anticipated intervention effect as the one used to estimate the required information size) (http://www.ctu.dk/tools-and-links/bayes-factor-calculation.aspx ).aspx
However, Bayes factor will still be misleading when an unrealistically large anticipated intervention effect is confirmed by 'play of chance', by an unrealistically large observed intervention effect [ 12, 50].
The uncertainty of the estimation of the anticipated intervention effect is a challenge and a major limitation – but remains a necessary evil.
Therefore, effectively avoiding PHF may benefit patients with CA. It is worth mentioning that there is lack of firm evidence for a beneficial effect and an insufficient information size to reject the anticipated intervention effect.
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