Parallel design with 3 arms adjustment needed ? [Power / Sample Size]

posted by sukimmm – 2008-10-20 04:53 (6463 d 12:15 ago) – Posting: # 2561
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Sorry if this is a basic question.

I have to calculate a sample size for a parallel design with 1 test product and 3 references.

We would like to know if the Test is Bioequivalent to the reference 1, then to the reference 2 and then to the reference 3 (not simulateneously of course !).

Q1. Should I adjust for the multiplicity of tests error (i.e. as a Bonferroni adjustment to the alpha = alpha/number of planned comparisons) ?

Q2. Should I use the sample size calculations as in a 0ne-test one-treatment parallel design (as in Julious's Tutorial pp. 1969-70-71, Stat in Medicine) ?

Q3. Or maybe I should work on a alpha=0.05 with an allocation ratio (r in the equation) of 1/4 ?

Your advices will be more than welcome. Thanks in advance

Sukimmm

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