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Table 1 Sample SD based on a pilot study with n = 50 experiments in 5 omission proportions for a desired confidence α ≥ 95% and a desired Error E ≤ 1%.

From: Context-driven discovery of gene cassettes in mobile integrons using a computational grammar

Omission Proportion

SD

A*2

Required Experiments

KS test p-value

5%

0.140

1.09

749

0.068

10%

0.096

0.565

352

 

15%

0.081

0.733

252

 

20%

0.070

0.505

187

 

25%

0.054

0.300

113

 

30%

0.052

0.419

103

 

35%

0.044

0.716

75

 

40%

0.044

0.360

74

 

45%

0.041

0.438

66

 

50%

0.039

0.150

59

 
  1. The Anderson-Darling values, adjusted for sample size (A*2) greater than 0.752 rejects the null-hypothesis that sample is normally distributed. For the 5% omission proportion, a truncated normal distribution was tested using the KS test which gave a p-value > 5%.