I'm designing an experiment and trying to do a power analysis do determine how many participants I will need for my experiment to be able to unearth a small effect size (if feasible). I am not exactly sure how to calculate the values for the parameter values that I feed into the pwr
package function for linear regression in R.
The function is the following:
pwr.f2.test(u =, v = , f2 = , sig.level = , power = )
where u
and v
are the numerator and denominator degrees of freedom respectively. We use f2
as the effect size measure. If your arguments are supplied, then the function outputs the fifth argument, in my case power
which stands for the number of participants. I need advice on how to calculate the values for some of the other parameters.
My significance level is 0.05 and the effect size value is 0.02 for a small effect size. Cohen (1988) suggests f2 values of 0.02, 0.15, and 0.35 represent small, medium, and large effect sizes.
I determine u
by calculating p (the number of predictors) - 1. My factor variables are experimental condition (4 dimensions), stress position (2 dimensions), and vowel (2 dimensions). My continuous variables are frequency and vowel-to-consonant ratio. How do I calculate p from this. Do I just count the variables regardless of whether they are factors or continuous variables (in which case I have p=5) or do I count each dimension of my factors as 1 (in which case p=10)?
I determine v
by calculating n-p, where p is the number of predictors and n is the number of observations. In my case n=60 but I'm not sure how to calculate p (see above).
So what I need to find out is how to correctly determine p with factors and continuous variables.
Thanks in advance for your help!