Critical value [Regulatives / Guidelines]
Dear Ankita,
the answer to your question can be found in the references you gave (especially http://www.fda.gov/downloads/DrugsGuidanceComplianceRegulatoryInformation/Guidances/ucm070118.pdf page 7).
An example of the sentence "People able to read are clearly in advantage in reading"
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What the SAS code excerpt you cite does is the calculation of the critical value (V as a function of the two group variances and their degrees of freedom) and with that the confidence interval for the difference
the very first term in the population BE criterion.
The test used for that end is a variant of a test for comparing two means without the assumption of equal variances.
This is commonly termed Behrens-Fisher problem.
The more commonly known (approximate) solution to the Behrens-Fisher problem is the Welch t-test.
Search the forum for that.
The guidance suggest to use the Lee-Gurland1,2,3 variant instead of the Welch test because this is said to have better performance with small sample sizes.
1Lee A.F.S., J. Gurland
"Size and power of test for equality of means of two normal populations with unequal variances"
J Amer Statist Assoc, 70, 933-941 (1975)
2Lee A.F.S., N.S. Fineberg
"A fitted test for the Behrens-Fisher problem"
Comm Statist- Theory Meth, 20, 653-666 (1991)
3Lee A.F.S.
"Coefficients of lee-gurland two-sample test on normal means"
Comm Statist- Theory Meth, 24, 1743-1768 (1995)
Astonishing enough I havn't found any software which delivers the Lee-Gurland test out of the box, even not in R.
the answer to your question can be found in the references you gave (especially http://www.fda.gov/downloads/DrugsGuidanceComplianceRegulatoryInformation/Guidances/ucm070118.pdf page 7).
An example of the sentence "People able to read are clearly in advantage in reading"
.What the SAS code excerpt you cite does is the calculation of the critical value (V as a function of the two group variances and their degrees of freedom) and with that the confidence interval for the difference
(µT-µR) the very first term in the population BE criterion.
The test used for that end is a variant of a test for comparing two means without the assumption of equal variances.
This is commonly termed Behrens-Fisher problem.
The more commonly known (approximate) solution to the Behrens-Fisher problem is the Welch t-test.
Search the forum for that.
The guidance suggest to use the Lee-Gurland1,2,3 variant instead of the Welch test because this is said to have better performance with small sample sizes.
1Lee A.F.S., J. Gurland
"Size and power of test for equality of means of two normal populations with unequal variances"
J Amer Statist Assoc, 70, 933-941 (1975)
2Lee A.F.S., N.S. Fineberg
"A fitted test for the Behrens-Fisher problem"
Comm Statist- Theory Meth, 20, 653-666 (1991)
3Lee A.F.S.
"Coefficients of lee-gurland two-sample test on normal means"
Comm Statist- Theory Meth, 24, 1743-1768 (1995)
Astonishing enough I havn't found any software which delivers the Lee-Gurland test out of the box, even not in R.

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Regards,
Detlew
Regards,
Detlew
Complete thread:
- Population BE for in-vitro data Ankita 2011-06-24 15:32
- Critical valued_labes 2011-06-29 09:07
- Critical value Ankita 2011-06-30 19:06
- Population BE for in-vitro data krishna 2013-06-18 14:01
- Population BE for in-vitro data krishna 2013-06-19 12:03
- Population BE for in-vitro data Helmut 2013-06-19 18:24
- Population BE for in-vitro data krishna 2013-06-19 12:03
- Critical valued_labes 2011-06-29 09:07
