Questions on how to plan an experiment to gain the best results. Also suitable for questions on why other researchers followed a certain procedure.

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Is it necessary to conduct a power analysis before beginning an experiment?

I know that power analysis is the statistically valid way to ensure you use the correct numer of samples or repeats in an experiment. But I have never seen any biologist actually conduct a power ...