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The size of the sample depends on how rare of an event that is being studied. For something that happens 80% of the time, 300 is a very reasonable number. Somet
by loonster 5y ago
The size of the sample depends on how rare of an event that is being studied. For something that happens 80% of the time, 300 is a very reasonable number. Something that happens 1/1000 or 999/1000 would need a much larger sample size.
- bumby 5y agoYes, I agree. But that’s to the same point. The p-value is still a measure of whether your sample size is large enough to capture a small probability event in the context of assessing the null hypothesis