To Err is Human [General Sta­tis­tics]

posted by d_labes  – Berlin, Germany, 2010-07-16 12:42 (5827 d 23:41 ago) – Posting: # 5644
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"If debugging is the process of removing bugs,
then programming must be the process of putting them in."
(Edsger W. Dijkstra)


Dear Paolo,

❝ »... You must calculate T-0.5(R1+R2).

❝ My bad on this. I went through my code a number of times but didn't even notice this!!! :-(


See the subject of these posts and the slogan of he day :-D.
Or another one in German "Man sieht den Wald vor lauter Bäumen nicht!" (Rough translation: Don't see the wood for the trees.)

❝ I revised this two as well (see way below for my codes :-D). After revising, I ran my models however I got a different result than the one gotten by d_labes (see below). Mine is 0.023485.


I have calculated using (is theta in your code)
theta2 = ((log(1.25)/0.2936)2=(0.76)2
(BTW: Yes nitpickers, of course I know it's really (log(1.25)/sqrt(log(0.3*0.3+1)))^2=(0.7601283...)^2 :cool:.)

This is recommended by Tothfalusi et. al. (see here for literature) to avoid a discontinuity at the switching variance of CV=30% (switch from usual 80 ... 125% acceptance range to the widened ranges) and is the regulatory constant in the new EMA bioequivalence guidance.
This discontinuity leads to a high alpha-inflation around CV=30%.

❝ I am also confused with the difference between the S2wr results by the ABE SAS code by FDA (page 9 of progesterone guideline) using PROC Mixed and the S2wr formula for intra-subject contrasts. I tried using both as well. I produced the results that was earlier posted. Why is it that Sigma2WR values are different? Is this ok?

(color by me)

Dear Paolo: Sorry but this question is plaguing us as well and is source of our continuing discussion here.
Especially we don't know if one can trust in the results of the FDA Proc Mixed code in case of the extra-reference design your data came from. :ponder:

Regards,

Detlew

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