Not sure whether I understand this [Two-Stage / GS Designs]
Hi ElMaestro!
Not quite. You are mixing two things up, IMHO. T/R is an assumption – not “known”. Hard-core statisticians told me that (even for a fixed design) we never should use term “sample size calculation”, but “sample size estimation” instead because T/R is assumed and CV an estimate at the best (or also only an assumption).
Known ≠ assumed. We never know.
Why? Variance is independent from a shift in location.
Too stupid for the rest of your post.
❝ When we calculate type I errors and power in Potvin's scenarios we assume a T/R. This is a 'known', in contrast to the estimates we get from the sampled data.
Not quite. You are mixing two things up, IMHO. T/R is an assumption – not “known”. Hard-core statisticians told me that (even for a fixed design) we never should use term “sample size calculation”, but “sample size estimation” instead because T/R is assumed and CV an estimate at the best (or also only an assumption).
❝ When we calculate the sample size for the second stage we apply a known (=assumed) T/R and a measured variability,
Known ≠ assumed. We never know.
❝ but the measured variability reflects the sampled T/R.

Too stupid for the rest of your post.
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