Vaping: The Key to Quitting Cigarettes or a Gateway to Addiction?

: In 2022, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) discovered that 2.55 million middle and high school students were using electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) in the US alone. E-cigarettes allow people to inhale a nicotine solution (e-liquid) into their bodies.

Sample Size Calculations in Simple Linear Regression: A New Approach.

The problem tackled is the determination of sample size for a given level and power in the context of a simple linear regression model. The standard approach deals with planned experiments in which the predictor X is observed for a number n of times and the corresponding observations on the response variable Y are to be drawn. The statistic that is used is built on the least squares' estimator of the slope parameter.