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A very useful discussion of exactly what is a pilot study has been given by Thabane et al. [ 2] Such kinds of study may have various purposes such as testing study procedures, validity of tools, estimation of the recruitment rate, and estimation of parameters such as the variance of the outcome variable to calculate sample size etc.
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