Sentence examples for detecting an effect from inspiring English sources

Choosing the right sample size increases the chance of detecting an effect, and ensures that the study is both ethical and cost-effective.

Threshold drug dose for detecting an effect on sampling outcome was determined by a Receiving Operator Curve (Sampling success/Drug dose) and a Youden test [21].

By contrast, in the present study, the stimuli were all clearly supra-threshold and could be identified quite effortlessly, which might have prevented detecting an effect of perceptual difficulty on dwell times.

The power of a study is the probability of successfully detecting an effect of a particular size and it is a major challenge to achieve adequate power to detect subtle associations for a complex trait, such as unexplained reduced sperm counts, while minimizing the risk of false positives.

This is an important impediment to our study as it lowers the probability of detecting an effect.

By that we mean that its rate of metabolism would not obviate the possibility of detecting an effect.

There were not enough cases to detect an effect on Alzheimer's disease.

This results from the continuous nature of the paradigm and critically only makes it more difficult to detect an effect.

We did not detect an effect of forest management on home-range size of male snakes.

Statistical power is the ability of a study to detect an effect (eg higher rates of cancer in smokers) given that an effect actually exists (smoking actually is associated with increased risk of cancer).

"The design suffers from a total lack of statistical power to detect an effect if one truly exists," Amy Borenstein, an epidemiologist at the University of South Florida, said before the Congressional hearing.