CI Functions for Power of t Tests

In Confidence Interval for Effect Size and Power, we show how to calculate a confidence interval for statistical power of a t test based on a confidence interval for the noncentrality parameter. On this webpage we show how to use Real Statistics functions to quickly calculate such confidence intervals.

Real Statistics Functions: The following array functions are provided in the Real Statistics Resource Pack:

T1_POWER_Conf(d, n, tails, lab, alpha, iter, prec) = a column array containing the power of a single sample t test, plus the lower and upper  confidence interval limits of the power, where if lab = TRUE (default FALSE) then a column of labels is appended to the output and all the other arguments are as for the T1_POWER function (see Statistical Power of the t Tests).

T2_POWER_Conf(d, n1, n2, tails, lab, alpha, iter, prec) = a column array containing the power of a two independent sample t test, plus the lower and upper confidence interval limits of the power, where if lab = TRUE (default FALSE) then a column of labels is appended to the output and all the other arguments are as for the T2_POWER function (see Statistical Power of the t Tests).

Referring to Figure 5 of Confidence Interval for Effect Size and Power, the output from =T1_POWER_Conf(AA9, AA7,2,TRUE) is similar to that shown in range Z13:AA15 of that webpage.

Referring to Figure 2 of Confidence Interval Functions for Effect Size d, the output from =T2_POWER_Conf(J12,J7,J8,2,TRUE) is shown in Figure 1. Thus, although the power is 55.2% (based on the sample), you are 95% confident that the actual power (for the population) is between 5.1% and 98.1%.

CI power two samples

Figure 1 – 95% confidence interval for power

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