Re: [tips] Sample Size: How to Determine it?

2013-08-27 Thread Paul C Bernhardt
[pcbernha...@frostburg.edu<mailto:pcbernha...@frostburg.edu>] Sent: 27 August 2013 08:41 To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] Sample Size: How to Determine it? There is software to determine this. One excellent and free app is G*Power. http://www.psych

RE: [tips] Sample Size: How to Determine it?

2013-08-27 Thread Wuensch, Karl L
: RE: [tips] Sample Size: How to Determine it? I was going to stay out of this discussion but I have to address a couple of points, one of which is made by Rick at the end of his post: (1) The major problem with power analysis is that it requires one to have knowledge of POPULATION PARAMETERS, that

RE: [tips] Sample Size: How to Determine it?

2013-08-27 Thread Mike Palij
I was going to stay out of this discussion but I have to address a couple of points, one of which is made by Rick at the end of his post: (1) The major problem with power analysis is that it requires one to have knowledge of POPULATION PARAMETERS, that is, the means, the standard deviation, the c

RE: [tips] Sample Size: How to Determine it?

2013-08-27 Thread rfro...@jbu.edu
ives thought to his steps." From: Michael Britt [mailto:mich...@thepsychfiles.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2013 9:00 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] Sample Size: How to Determine it? Also helpful. So, to answer my own previous question, b

Re: [tips] Sample Size: How to Determine it?

2013-08-27 Thread Ken Steele
<mailto:pcbernha...@frostburg.edu>] *Sent:*27 August 2013 08:41 *To:*Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) *Subject:*Re: [tips] Sample Size: How to Determine it? There is software to determine this. One excellent and free app is G*Power. http://www.psycho.uni-duesseldorf.de/abteilung

RE: [tips] Sample Size: How to Determine it?

2013-08-27 Thread Jim Clark
__ From: Paul C Bernhardt [pcbernha...@frostburg.edu<mailto:pcbernha...@frostburg.edu>] Sent: 27 August 2013 08:41 To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] Sample Size: How to Determine it

Re: [tips] Sample Size: How to Determine it?

2013-08-27 Thread Michael Britt
ttp://www.ubishops.ca/ccc/div/soc/psy > > " Floreat Labore" > ___________ > > From: Paul C Bernhardt [pcbernha...@frostburg.edu] > Sent: 27 August 2013 08:41 > To: Teaching in the Psy

Re: [tips] Sample Size: How to Determine it?

2013-08-27 Thread Michael Britt
Thanks Paul. I've downloaded G*Power. Question: the correlational component of the study revealed r = -.21, p<04 (higher tendency to humanize nature were associated with a lower tendency to help victims of a natural disaster). The next test will be an independent samples t-test. How does th

RE: [tips] Sample Size: How to Determine it?

2013-08-27 Thread Stuart McKelvie
" Floreat Labore" ___ From: Paul C Bernhardt [pcbernha...@frostburg.edu] Sent: 27 August 2013 08:41 To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] Sample Size: How to Determine it? There is softwar

Re: [tips] Sample Size: How to Determine it?

2013-08-27 Thread Paul C Bernhardt
There is software to determine this. One excellent and free app is G*Power. http://www.psycho.uni-duesseldorf.de/abteilungen/aap/gpower3/ I would use the correlational study to give me an estimate of effect size. As you describe, I would use that in the software to estimate my number of partici