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[9353]1#region License Information
2/* HeuristicLab
[17180]3 * Copyright (C) Heuristic and Evolutionary Algorithms Laboratory (HEAL)
[9353]4 *
5 * This file is part of HeuristicLab.
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19 */
20#endregion
21
22using System;
23using System.Linq;
24using HeuristicLab.Common;
25
26namespace HeuristicLab.Analysis.Statistics {
[10019]27  public static class SampleSizeDetermination {
[9353]28    /// <summary>
[10016]29    /// Determines for a given sample the required sample size as described in
[11671]30    /// Göran Kauermann, Helmut Küchenhoff: Stichproben: Methoden und praktische Umsetzung mit R, section 2.27.
[9353]31    /// </summary>
32    /// <param name="samples">The pilot sample.</param>
33    /// <param name="conf">Confidence Interval.</param>
[10017]34    /// <returns>Number of required samples for the given confidence interval. </returns>
[10016]35    public static int DetermineSampleSizeByEstimatingMean(double[] samples, double conf = 0.95) {
[10017]36      if (conf < 0.0 || conf > 1.0) throw new ArgumentException("The confidence interval must be between zero and one.");
[9353]37
[11914]38      var confInterval = samples.ConfidenceIntervals(conf);
[10016]39      double e = (confInterval.Item2 - confInterval.Item1) / 2;
[11699]40      double s = samples.StandardDeviation();
[10016]41      double z = alglib.invnormaldistribution((conf + 1) / 2);
42      double n = samples.Count();
43
44      double result = Math.Pow(s, 2) / ((Math.Pow(e, 2) / Math.Pow(z, 2)) + (Math.Pow(s, 2) / n));
45
[9353]46      result = Math.Ceiling(result);
47      if (result > int.MaxValue)
48        return int.MaxValue;
49      else
50        return (int)result;
51    }
52
53    /// <summary>
54    /// Calculates Cohen's d.
55    /// </summary>
56    /// <returns>Cohen's d.
57    /// d = 0.2 means small effect
58    /// d = 0.5 means medium effect
59    /// d = 0.8 means big effect
60    /// According to Wikipedia this means: "A lower Cohen's d indicates a necessity of larger sample sizes, and vice versa."
61    /// </returns>
62    public static double CalculateCohensD(double[] d1, double[] d2) {
63      double x1, x2, s1, s2;
64
65      x1 = d1.Average();
66      x2 = d2.Average();
67      s1 = d1.Variance();
68      s2 = d2.Variance();
69
[11692]70      return Math.Abs(x1 - x2) / Math.Sqrt((s1 + s2) / 2);
[9353]71    }
72
73    /// <summary>
74    /// Calculates Hedges' g.
75    /// Hedges' g works like Cohen's d but corrects for bias.
76    /// </summary>
77    /// <returns>Hedges' g</returns>
78    public static double CalculateHedgesG(double[] d1, double[] d2) {
79      double x1, x2, s1, s2, n1, n2, s, g, c;
80
81      x1 = d1.Average();
82      x2 = d2.Average();
83      s1 = d1.Variance();
84      s2 = d2.Variance();
85      n1 = d1.Count();
86      n2 = d2.Count();
87
88      s = Math.Sqrt(((n1 - 1) * s1 + (n2 - 1) * s2) / (n1 + n2 - 2));
[11692]89      g = Math.Abs(x1 - x2) / s;
[9353]90      c = (1 - (3 / (4 * (n1 + n2) - 9))) * g;
91
92      return c;
93    }
94  }
95}
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