We outline a method of sample size calculation in microarray experiments on the basis of pilot data and illustrate its practical application with both simulated and real data. The method was shown to be consistent (as the number of `probed genes' tends to infinity) under general conditions in an...

We provide a method for calculating the sample size required to attain a given average power (the ratio of rejected hypotheses to the number of false hypotheses) and a given false discovery rate (the number of incorrect rejections divided by the number of rejections) in adaptive versions of the...