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Friday, December 30, 2016

Submitted by

Aristotle Protopapas

Source

Source Name: The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Source URL: http://www.jtcvsonline.org/article/S0022-5223(16)30863-7/abstract

Author(s)

Blackstone EH

A most easily read brief editorial explaining in simple terms the power of a study, bootstrapping and the CLINICAL significance of risk factors in multivariate analysis. The author explains that the number of events defines the effective desirable sample size, not the number of individuals included in studies.