1. What Do We Learn From an Equivalence Study Without Statistical Power?
Kyle Peyton, MA, MPhil 
Annals of Emergency Medicine 
Volume 72, Issue 2, Pages (August 2018)
DOI: /j.annemergmed
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2. Figure
Two simulated versions of the study by Linden et al, with idealized versus implemented sample sizes. Each plot shows a random sample of 100 results from 10,000 simulations of each design. Estimated differences in composite morbidity are displayed as 90% confidence intervals. Vertical dotted lines are the author’s selected equivalence range of 8%. Because equivalence is true in these simulations, gray intervals are correct rejections and black intervals are incorrect rejections. The idealized study has 0.84 power to detect equivalence, but the implemented study has 0 power. An explanation of the simulations presented here with accompanying R code is available at
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