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Effect of halving the MDE

Statistics & Inference · Intervals & Errors · easy · Original Uplift question · 5 min

You halve the minimum detectable effect you want to catch while holding power and alpha fixed. By what factor does the required sample size change? Answer as a multiplier.

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