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Table 2 Subsets of randomly sampled journals from the 161-journal database with their corresponding widths of 95% confidence intervals (Ws) achieved and numbers of pass articles for treatment, diagnosis, and prognosis categories

From: Sample size determination for bibliographic retrieval studies

Number of journal in each randomly sampled subset

W (numbers of pass articles in each journal subset)

 

Treatment

Diagnosis

Prognosis

161

0.04 (1587)

0.16 (147)

0.16 (190)

150

0.04 (1483)

0.18 (131)

0.16 (179)

140

0.04 (1425)

0.16 (136)

0.16 (159)

130

0.04 (1154)

0.20 (107)

0.18 (145)

120

0.04 (1200)

0.18 (109)

0.16 (150)

110

0.04 (1228)

0.20 (94)

0.16 (153)

105

0.04 (1027)

0.20 (93)

0.20 (110)

100

0.04 (1019)

0.20 (86)

0.18 (133)

95

0.04 (818)

0.20 (94)

0.20 (108)

90

0.04 (962)

0. 24 (66)

0.22 (79)

85

0.04 (1014)

0.20 (83)

0.18 (128)

80

0.04 (847)

0.22 (70)

0.18 (125)

75

0.04 (632)

0.22 (53)

0.22 (73)

70

0.05 (402)

0.24 (61)

0.24 (69)

65

0.05 (582)

0.26 (54)

0.22 (86)

60

0.04 (660)

0.22 (72)

0.24 (72)

55

0.04 (675)

0.30 (38)

0.24 (66)

50

0.04 (696)

0.30 (38)

0.22 (80)

45

0.05 (395)

0.40 (21)

0.36 (30)

40

0.06 (374)

0.30 (39)

0.28 (51)

35

0.08 (222)

0.38 (24)

0.38 (26)

30

0.08 (263)

0.38 (24)

0.40 (24)

25

0.08 (251)

0.30 (40)

0.34 (35)

20

0.10 (141)

0.36 (28)

0.42 (22)

15

0.08 (191)

0.56 (11)

0.40 (25)

10

0.12 (85)

0.56 (11)

0.50 (15)

5

0.18 (37)

NA* (0)

NA* (1)

  1. *NA = not available.