Need for speed... [Two-Stage / GS Designs]

posted by d_labes  – Berlin, Germany, 2011-02-15 15:06 (5241 d 09:04 ago) – Posting: # 6624
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Dear Old Pirate!

❝ 1.000.000 sims at CV=0.3 and n1=36 method B takes [Praise C]45 seconds[/Praise C] :pirate: :pirate: :pirate: on my laptop using Mersenne Twister as my NLYW.


Wow! That's really fast! :clap:

❝ ... They seem to use a funny way to calculate power; I bet the magnificent package power.TOST can do it better.


Of course :-D! But remember my post to find out that the approximations work reasonable good for the decision power>=80% or power<80%. But if approximate I would go for the non-central t-distribution.

Do you think that your C-code can made interacting with R to facilitate such things as other methods for sample size adaption, other nominal alpha values for the two stages, introduction of a maximum number of subjects ... ?

Regards,

Detlew

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