Simulating the Power of Statistical Tests: A Collection of R Examples
Applications
2026-02-16 v3
Abstract
This paper illustrates how to calculate the power of a statistical test by computer simulation. It provides R code for power simulations of several classical inference procedures including one- and two-sample t tests, chi-squared tests, regression, and analysis of variance.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2110.09836,
title = {Simulating the Power of Statistical Tests: A Collection of R Examples},
author = {Florian Wickelmaier},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.09836},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
24 pages, 1 figure, PDFLaTeX; new paragraph on power curves, changed 2x2 repeated measures ANOVA example to 2x3, updated references