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Re:Lymphoma Progression Linked To Low Vitamin D by ikitat on Tuesday December 08, 2009 @09:59PM (#985192)
Your idea of science is different than mine.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19296870

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Re:Lymphoma Progression Linked To Low Vitamin D by peregrine on Tuesday December 08, 2009 @11:40PM (#985322)
162 hardly seems like a good enough sample to make any certain conclusions...not saying his data are any better just pointing it out.
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Re:Lymphoma Progression Linked To Low Vitamin D by rjprins on Wednesday December 09, 2009 @01:16AM (#985455)
This is a common misconception. You want to calculate the odds of 162 people not showing an effect where there should be one?

What is important is not the sample size, but the manner of sample selection. 10 people carefully chosen to represent a population is infinitely more valuable than 1000 people chosen with some uncontrolled selection bias.

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