Sample size for PK linearity - power model [Power / Sample Size]

posted by d_labes  – Berlin, Germany, 2014-09-12 17:01 (4295 d 16:36 ago) – Posting: # 13499
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❝ Hello Helmut!


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❝ If I'm going to use the Power Model, I think I should use this reference. Can you suggest me which software does that calculation?


I'm only aware of a solution in SAS given in the Patterson/Jones book for the case of crossover studies:
data a;
  * total number of subjects (needs to be a multiple of number
    of sequences, seq);
  * p is the number of periods;

  n=12; seq=3; p=3;
  * significance level;
  a=0.05;
  * true dose proportionality;
  beta=1;
  * sigmaW = within-subject standard deviation;
  sigmaW=0.25;
  * css is the corrected sum of squares of doses;
  * s assumes period effects are orthogonal to dose;

  css=CSS(log(1),log(2),log(8));
  s=sigmaW/sqrt(n*css);
  * error degrees of freedom for cross-over with n subjects in total
    assigned equally to seq sequences;

  n2=(n*p)-(n+p-1)-1;
  * t = acceptance limit;
  theta=1.25;
  r=8/1;
  t=log(theta)/log(r);
run;
data b; set a;
  * calculate power;
  t1=tinv(1-a,n2); t2=-t1;
  nc1=(sqrt(n))*((beta-(1-t))/s);
  nc2=(sqrt(n))*((beta-(1+t))/s);
  df=n2;
  prob1=probt(t1,df,nc1);
  prob2=probt(t2,df,nc2);
  answer=prob2-prob1;
  power=answer*100;
run;
proc print data=b; run;


I'm not quite sure if this all is correct.
Only power is calculated. Use this with different n's until you get your desired power. But for crossover designs you get high power with small numbers already. The above code with n=12 gives power=1!


BTW:
If you have the paper you linked to I would happy to get a copy. Then it may eventually possible to incorporate it into R-package PowerTOST.


S Patterson and B Jones
Bioequivalence and Statistics in Clinical Pharmacology
Chapman & Hall/CRC, Boca Raton (2006)
page 239

Regards,

Detlew

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