Estimation of sample size and power for general full factorial designs
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The aim of this study is to calculate sample size and power for several varieties of general full factorial designs, in order to help researchers to avoid the waste of resources by collecting surplus data before designing experiments. It was found out that the calculations were significantly affected by many factors in full factorial experimental designs, such as number of levels for each factor, number of replications, maximum difference between main effect means and standard deviation.
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