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R-, If III among people. rSOIl [COIn thp \'aci For example, the ICHS had over 3000 participants with at most seven observations per person. The Sitka NOTATION 15 spruce data set inc ludes on ly 79 trees, each with 23 measurements. Finally. the objectives of the studies differ. For example. in the (1)•1+ data set. inferences are to be made abo u t the individual subject s o that counselling can be provided, whereas in the crossover trial. the average response in the population for each of the two treatments is t lie focus. These differences influence the specific approach to analysis as discussed in &tad throughout the book. Three visits. including the baseline visit, are planned at years 0, 2, and 5. 22. 5 mmHg/year, the table below gives the number of subjects needed for both treated and control groups for some selected values of p and a 2 . 8 313 195 79 625 391 157 937 586 235 Note that for each value of a 2 , the required sample size decreases as the correlation, p, increases. Finally, the sample size formula presented above can be extended easily anxn to correlation structures other than the exchangeable one. Let R, matrix be the common correlation matrix for each subject.