Tough job [Two-Stage / GS Designs]

posted by GSD – Canada, 2012-08-31 21:23 (4613 d 17:38 ago) – Posting: # 9136
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Hi Helmut!

Thanks for the graph!

❝ Yes, but as I said at the end of my post not only the grid is too coarse, but IMHO 104 sim’s are not enough.


I actually tried both the 10^4 and 10^5 # of simulations (for about 5 different scenarios), the results are almost identical. I realized that 10^6 is a must when you go for Potvin’s 2-stage.

❝ Which one of Potvin’s methods are you aiming at?


Methods C/D.

❝ Doesn’t make sense. ln(0.8)/ln(1.25) are fixed margins and we are testing for no inflation there. 0.748 is outside the margin and the GMR-restriction would reject all studies.


But if any of your sample CVs exceeds 30%, the acceptance limits are widened. They are no longer fixed at 0.8 and 1.25. When you enter your simulation with a starting CV of say 35%, most of your random samples will have an acceptance limit in the neighborhood of [0.7723, 1.2948]. In this case, when you still center it on ln(0.8), the simulated “type I error” will be huge.

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