• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.175-190
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• 1999

생존시간을 비교하기 위한 임상시험에서는 생존기간과 관련된 위험인자들을 고려한 층화된 연구설계가 종종 요구된다. 이 경우 필요한 표본수가 결정은 층이 없는 경우에 비하여 다양한 연구상황과 복잡한 표본수의 산출 절차를 수반한다. 본 논문에서는 층이 있는 경우 생존시간을 비교할 때 필요한 표본수를 결정하는 방법들을 실례와 함께 설명하고, 연구자가 주어진 상황하에서 적절한 방법을 선택하는데 도움이 될 수 있도록, 다양한 상황을 설정하여 이에 대한 표본수를 비교하였다.

• Clinics in Shoulder and Elbow
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.53-57
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• 2013

Purpose: This review aims to explain the definition and basic principle of statistical analysis and to clarify statistical issues related to the sample size calculation. Materials and Methods: Many formulas are available that can be applied for different types of data and study design. Results: The sample size is the number of patients or other experimental units that need to be calculated prior to the study. Determining the appropriate sample size is required to answer the research question. Conclusion: Caution is needed when applying formula for the calculation of the sample size, as it is sensitive to error and even small differences in selected parameters can lead to large differences in the sample size.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.1243-1251
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• 2010

For clinical trials, it is common to compare the placebo and new drug. The method of calculating a sample size for two independent populations are the t-test that is used for parametric methods, and the Wilcoxon rank-sum test that is used in the non-parametric methods. In this paper, we propose a method that is using Kim's (1994) statistic power based on the linear placement statistic, which was proposed by Orban and Wolfe (1982). We also compare the sample size for the proposed method with that for using Wang et al. (2003)'s sample size formula which is based on Wilcoxon rank-sum test, and with that of t-test for parametric methods.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Applied Pharmacology
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• 1995.10a
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• pp.73-78
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• 1995

표본수를 결정하는 방법에는 크게 sequential design과 fixed sample size design이 있다. Fixed sample size design은 연구를 시행하기 전에 표본수를 합리적으로 결정하고 정해진 표본내에서 연구를 진행하는 방법이며, sequential design은 연구를 진행하면서 결과의 차이가 있는가 또는 없는가에 대해 미리 정해진 한계영역을 기준으로 계속적으로 연구대상을 추출하여 연구를 진행하는 방법이다. 여기서는 많이 사용되는 fixed sample size design에 대해서만 생각하기로 한다.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.183-194
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• 2007

The problem of calculating the sample sizes for comparing two independent binomial proportions is studied, when one of two probabilities or both are smaller than 0.05. The use of Whittemore(1981)'s corrected sample size formula for small response probability, which is derived based oB multiple logistic regression, demonstrates much larger sample sizes compared to those by the asymptotic normal method, which is derived for the comparison of response probabilities belonging to the normal range. Therefore, applied statisticians need to be careful in sample size determination with small response probability to ensure intended power during a planning stage of clinical trials. The results of this study describe that the use of the sample size formula in the textbooks might sometimes be risky.

• Proceedings of the Korean Association for Survey Research Conference
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• 2000.06a
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• pp.113-132
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• 2000

본 연구에서 구현하 SLWES(Sampling Learning Web Expert System)은 인터넷 환경에서 표본조사의 학습과 실제 표본조사 자료로부터 모수를 추정할 수 있도록 웹 프로그래밍 기술과 HTML을 결합하여 학습시스템과 통계계산 시스템, 그리고 전문가시스템으로 구성된 표본조사 학습전문가 시스템이다. SLWES는 표본조사에 대하여 전문 지식이 없거나 통계패키지 사용에 익숙하지 않은 비전문가들에게 표본추출법, 무수측정 표본크기 결정 등 표본조사에 대한 이론 학습과 실습의 기회를 인터넷 환경에서 직접 제공함으로써 사용자의 지식에 따라 표본조사론에 대해 체계적이고 효과적으로 학습할 수 있는 시스템이다. 또한 SLWES는 실제 표본조사의 표본추출에 적용될 수 있고 수집된 자료로부터 모수를 추정할수 있으므로 표본조사에 활용될 수 있다.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.1249-1263
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• 2009

The power function in sample size determination has to be characterized by an appropriate statistical test for the hypothesis of interest. Nonparametric tests are suitable in the analysis of ordinal data or frequency data with ordered categories which appear frequently in the biomedical research literature. In this paper, we study sample size calculation methods for the Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test for one- and two-dimensional ordinal outcomes. While the sample size formula for the univariate outcome which is based on the variances of the test statistic under both null and alternative hypothesis perform well, this formula requires additional information on probability estimates that appear in the variance of the test statistic under alternative hypothesis, and the values of these probabilities are generally unknown. We study the advantages and disadvantages of different sample size formulas with simulations. Sample sizes are calculated for the two-dimensional ordinal outcomes of efficacy and safety, for which bivariate Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test is appropriate than the multivariate parametric test.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.1349-1357
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• 2013

In clinical research, sample size determination is one of the most important things. There are parametric method using t-test and non-parametric method suggested by Kim and Kim (2007) based on Wilcoxon's rank sum test for determining sample size in non-inferiority trials. In this paper, we propose sample size calculation method based on placements method suggested by Orban and Wolfe (1982) and using the power calculated by Kim (1994) in non-inferiority trials. We also compare proposed sample size with that using Kim and Kim (2007)'s formula and that of t-test for parametric methods. As the result, sample size calculated by proposed method based on placements is the smallest. Therefore, proposed method based on placements is better than parametric methods in case that it's hard to assume specific distribution function for population and also more efficient in terms of time and cost than method based on Wilcoxon's rank sum test.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.341-353
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• 2009

We consider sample-size determination problem motivated by comparative clinical trials where patient outcomes are characterized by a bivariate outcome of efficacy and safety. Thall and Cheng (1999) presented a sample size methodology for the case of bivariate binary outcomes. We propose a bivariate Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney(WMW) statistics for sample-size determination for binary outcomes, and this nonparametric method can be equally used to determine sample sizes of ordinal outcomes. The two methods of sample size determination rely on the same testing strategy for the target parameters but differs in the test statistics, an asymptotic bivariate normal statistic of the transformed proportions in Thall and Cheng (1999) and nonparametric bivariate WMW statistic in the other method. Sample sizes are calculated for the two experimental oncology trials, described in Thall and Cheng (1999), and for the first trial example the sample sizes of a bivariate WMW statistic are smaller than those of Thall and Cheng (1999), while for the second trial example the reverse is true.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.32 no.4
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• pp.643-652
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• 2019

We propose a method for sample size determination using design effect formulas when a sample is resigned for a repeated survey. The proposed method enables the determination of the sample size by incorporating the impact of various design components to the sampling error through design effect formulas that are applicable under multistage sampling design and stratified multistage sampling designs.