Coursebook Chapters » Sample Size Shop

The 26 individual chapters below (PDFs) are the compilation of the slides used in the short course, Power and Sample Size for Longitudinal and Multilevel Study Designs. These are for personal use only. © Copyright by the Regents of the University of Colorado.

Chapter 1 – Understanding Longitudinal Studies
Chapter 2 – Understanding Studies with a Single Level of Clustering
Chapter 3 – Studies with Multiple Levels of Clustering
Chapter 4 – Multilevel and Longitudinal Studies
Chapter 5 – Within and Between Independent Sampling Unit Factors
Chapter 6 – Understanding the Hypothesis
Chapter 7 – Power and Type I Error
Chapter 8 – Choosing the Test
Chapter 9 – Correlation Structure
Chapter 10 – Summarizing Your Design
Chapter 11 – Model Assumptions
Chapter 12 – Alignment of Power and Data Analysis
Chapter 13 – Predicting Missing Data
Chapter 14 – Ethics of Power and Sample Size
Chapter 15 – Accounting for Missing Data and Dropout
Chapter 16 – Continuous, Binary, and Count Outcomes
Chapter 17 – Inputs for Power Analysis: Literature Review
Chapter 18 – Inputs for Power Analysis: Internal Pilot
Chapter 19 – Inputs for Power Analysis: Planned Pilot Studies
Chapter 20 – Studying Power Via Simulation
Chapter 21 – Demonstrating Enrollment Feasibility
Chapter 22 – Handling Multiple Aims
Chapter 23 – Writing the Sample Size Section for your Proposal
Chapter 24 – Graphics for Power and Sample Size
Chapter 25 – Power for Subgroup Analysis
Chapter 26 – Getting Funded