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Pilot and feasibility studies come of age!

Pilot Feasibility Stud · 2015 · PMC5842886 · PMID 29611687

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McGrath [ 8 ] puts it this way: ‘ Pilot studies because they are often underpowered (small sample sizes) can only be used to generate beliefs that there will be a trend toward significance that provide support for larger studies.

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