Power calculation

GWAS

Posted by Fei-Fei on May 1, 2020

drawbacks of low power

uninformative, wrong signals and exaggeratef effect sizes (winner’s curse)

using photo to visualize it

bayes’ rule

alpha: false positive, type I error beta: false negative, type II error power=1-beta

sample size calculator

Determines the minmum number of subjects for adequate study power