Two Experimental Settings in Clinical Trials: Predictive Criteria for Choosing the Sample Size in Interval Estimation

Determination of the optimal sample size is a fundamental step in many statistical designs, especially relevant in biomedical studies and in all situations where data are difficult to collect.

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