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A recurrent question in the European Union (EU) regulatory endocrine assessment of pesticide active substances (2018\/605) is whether the positive results from an in vivo screening test, that is, Amphibian Metamorphosis Assay (AMA), can be considered sufficient to conclude on the ED properties of a pesticide active substance or whether the larval amphibian growth and developmental assay (LAGDA) is a necessary step to further clarify the concerns identified in the AMA. Another one is the consideration of the extended AMA (EAMA). To further clarify some of the uncertainties around the use of the LAGDA and to help further consideration of the EAMA in a regulatory context, the statistical power of the three test designs was tested for all the parameters entailed to be measured in the respective study design (except for thyroid histopathology) by using data from real experimental studies. 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