Power analysis in observational studies

Sorry, but that makes almost no sense. Why exactly do you want to do a power analysis on observational data that are retrospective? Power analyses can be useful in certain contexts like when designing an experiment/trial and where there is random assignment and ability to replicate studies, but I don’t understand why anyone would do it for retrospective data, that just sounds like calculating observed power, for that discussion and why it’s a bad idea, see here please

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