"Sample Size" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The number of units (persons, animals, patients, specified circumstances, etc.) in a population to be studied. The sample size should be big enough to have a high likelihood of detecting a true difference between two groups. (From Wassertheil-Smoller, Biostatistics and Epidemiology, 1990, p95)
| Descriptor ID |
D018401
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E05.318.780.762 E05.581.500.902 N05.715.360.780.692 N06.850.520.445.762
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| Concept/Terms |
Sample Size- Sample Size
- Sample Sizes
- Size, Sample
- Sizes, Sample
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1998 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2003 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2004 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2011 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2012 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2015 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Sample Size" by people in Profiles.
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Clinician's Guide to Understanding Effect Size, Alpha Level, Power, and Sample Size. Nutr Clin Pract. 2021 Jun; 36(3):598-605.
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Large-scale proteomic analysis of Alzheimer's disease brain and cerebrospinal fluid reveals early changes in energy metabolism associated with microglia and astrocyte activation. Nat Med. 2020 05; 26(5):769-780.
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Predictors of Citation Rate in the Spine Literature. Clin Spine Surg. 2020 03; 33(2):76-81.
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Fragility Index in Cardiovascular Randomized Controlled Trials. Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes. 2019 12; 12(12):e005755.
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Recruitment of patients with de novo Parkinson disease: successful strategies in a randomized exercise clinical trial. Trials. 2018 Nov 14; 19(1):630.
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Sample size determinations for group-based randomized clinical trials with different levels of data hierarchy between experimental and control arms. Stat Methods Med Res. 2017 Feb; 26(1):399-413.
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Sample size determinations for stepped-wedge clinical trials from a three-level data hierarchy perspective. Stat Methods Med Res. 2018 02; 27(2):480-489.
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Reliability and validity of assessing subspecialty level of faculty anesthesiologists' supervision of anesthesiology residents. Anesth Analg. 2015 Jan; 120(1):209-213.
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Which dyskinesia scale best detects treatment response? Mov Disord. 2013 Mar; 28(3):341-6.
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Rapid PROPELLER-MRI: a combination of iterative reconstruction and under-sampling. J Magn Reson Imaging. 2012 Nov; 36(5):1241-7.