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OCR: The Least Significant Number (LSN) The LSN or least significant number defined to be the number of observations nee to drive down the variance of the estimates enough to achieve significant result WI the given values of alpha, sigma, and delta (the significance level, the standard deviation of the error and the effect size respectively). The LSN tells you how much additional data would be needed to confirm significance given certain minimal tesi value for the parameters The LSN has the following characteristics If the LSN is less than the sample size n then the effect IC significant. This means that you have more data than you need to detect the significance at the given alpha lf the LSN is greater than n the effect not significant. In this case if you believe that more data will show the ...