Microsoft Excel 8.

0e Answer Report
Worksheet: [Minimum detectable difference.xls]Power for minimum difference
Report Created: 17/01/2002 09:45:13

Target Cell (Value Of)

Cell Name Original Value Final Value
$C$27 The power of your t-test is: 0.944 0.800

Adjustable Cells
Cell Name Original Value Final Value
$C$30 Mimimum detectable difference (%) 16.1 12.1

Constraints
NONE
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Worksheet: [Minimum detectable difference.xls]Power for minimum difference
Report Created: 17/01/2002 09:45:13

Adjustable Cells
Final Reduced
Cell Name Value Gradient
$C$30 Mimimum detectable difference (%) 12.1 0.0

Constraints
NONE
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Worksheet: [Minimum detectable difference.xls]Power for minimum difference
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Target
Cell Name Value
$C$27 The power of your t-test is: 0.800

Adjustable Lower Target Upper Target

Cell Name Value Limit Result Limit Result
$C$30 Mimimum detectable difference (%) 12.1 #N/A #N/A #N/A #N/A
 Power for minimum difference

Sample size calculations for comparison of two trea

Based on
Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture (in press)
Michael E. O'Neill & Peter C. Thomson
Biometry Unit, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Sydney, Australia
Compute the minimum detectable % difference between two treatments fo
Replication
Coefficient of Variation (CV)
Level of significance
Power (specified in SOLVER)

Method
A Fill the green shaded boxes below
B Run TOOLS/SOLVER
ensure that C27 is entered in the Set Target Cell: box
enter your desired power in the Value of: box
ensure that C30 is entered in the By Changing Cells:
click on Solve. The solution in C30 is the
required minimum detectable difference

The number of treatments in your proposed experiment:

The proposed number of replicates per treatment:

Enter an estimate of the Coefficient of Variation (CV)
The level of significance for your proposed t-test:
The power (1-Type II error rate) of your t-test is:
The Error df for your proposed t test are:
Your t critical value is:

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Mimimum detectable difference (%)

0.75

0.5

0.25

0
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16

significance level is the area under the blue curve to the right of Fcrit

power is the area under the brown curve to the right of Fcrit

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son of two treatments

of Sydney, Australia 2006 (MickO@agric.usyd.edu.au)

een two treatments for specified levels of

t Cell: box Do not change the value of

power in the box under the
ging Cells: box green cells. SOLVER will do that.

28
20 Variance 400
0.05
0.800 see graph below
54
2.00

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12.1

F-dist (means equal)

F-dist (means different)
Fcrit

14 16

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ill do that.

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