[R] sample size/power calc packages

[kjetil@entelnet.bo]

On 11 Nov 2003 at 7:55, John Fox wrote:

I have uploaded to CRAN a port of the asypow package for 
S-Plus, but I am not sure if it is visible there yet.

Kjetil Halvorsen

> Dear Peter,
> 
> At 12:30 PM 11/11/2003 +0100, Peter Dalgaard wrote:
> >rossini at blindglobe.net (A.J. Rossini) writes:
> >
> > > For various reasons, I spent part of my time today looking at sample
> > > size and power calculation tools (don't ask, don't tell...).  This
> > > seems to be one area that R is incredibly weak in (well, nearly all
> > > stat packages, except perhaps specialized tools and SAS); sure, there
> > > are a number of functions in various packages:
> > >
> > >           base, statmod, Hmisc
> > >
> > > Have I missed something?  (I would've expected at least one sequential
> > > computation, or non-standard design, but apparently there are none, or
> > > I missed it).
> > >
> > > I'd appreciate hearing about work that I've missed...
> >
> >Is SAS particularly hot? I've just been explaining to people how to
> >cheat SAS Analyst into letting the Two-Sample t-Test sample-sizer do
> >binomial proportions with a fudged SD.
> 
> There is an extensive set of power-calculation macros in SAS, by Ralph 
> O'Brien, at <http://www.bio.ri.ccf.org/power.html>. Apparently SAS Version 
> 9.1 will have new procs power and glmpower, which will cover most of what 
> is in these macros.
> 
> Regards,
>   John
> 
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> John Fox
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> McMaster University
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