"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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| 2000 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2003 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2004 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2009 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2015 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2022 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Sample Size" by people in Profiles.
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A saturated map of common genetic variants associated with human height. Nature. 2022 10; 610(7933):704-712.
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The biasing effects of selection and attrition on estimating the mean. Br J Math Stat Psychol. 2023 02; 76(1):106-130.
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Development, acceptability, appropriateness and appeal of a cancer clinical trials implementation intervention for rural- and minority-serving urology practices. Trials. 2019 Oct 07; 20(1):578.
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Effectiveness of a home fortification programme with multiple micronutrients on infant and young child development: a cluster-randomised trial in rural Bihar, India. Br J Nutr. 2018 07; 120(2):176-187.
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Rapid recovery of life at ground zero of the end-Cretaceous mass extinction. Nature. 2018 06; 558(7709):288-291.
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Edoxaban for treatment of venous thromboembolism in patients with cancer. Rationale and design of the Hokusai VTE-cancer study. Thromb Haemost. 2015 Nov 25; 114(6):1268-76.
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Soft-tissue defects after spinal instrumentation in 5 children: risk factors, management strategies, and outcomes. J Neurosurg Pediatr. 2014 Dec; 14(6):644-53.
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The importance of a priori sample size estimation in strength and conditioning research. J Strength Cond Res. 2013 Aug; 27(8):2323-37.
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Proteome sampling by the HLA class I antigen processing pathway. PLoS Comput Biol. 2012; 8(5):e1002517.
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High-throughput processing and normalization of one-color microarrays for transcriptional meta-analyses. BMC Bioinformatics. 2011 Oct 18; 12 Suppl 10:S2.