Post hoc power & other things… [Design Issues]

posted by Helmut Homepage – Vienna, Austria, 2013-02-22 15:15 (4873 d 05:16 ago) – Posting: # 10107
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Dear Ken!

❝ ❝ Post hoc power is completely irrelevant in bioequivalence. Either you demonstrated BE or not. Full :stop:. Unfortunately the Malaysian authority asks for post hoc power sometimes (or always?). It’s time for them to learn. ;-)


❝ Yes, it is a requirement. Please refer to Guidelines on Bioequivalence, 7.Bioequivalence Reporting Format (under 9.4) http://portal.bpfk.gov.my/index.cfm?&menuid=122.


Fantastic! Another example where a GL mandates nonsense. However, I cannot find a requirement that post hoc power has to be ≥80%. So, report it based on the study’s T/R-ratio and CVintra in order to make BPFK happy. If they reject a study which has demonstrated BE (CI within acceptance range) based on power <80% consider going to court.
Section 9.4 contains another stupidity: Summary of statistical significance for AUC and Cmax.
In BE we accept 20% as clinically irrelevant. If a study has high power (most likely if the CV is low and/or the T/R-ratio is close to 100%) we might get a statistically significant difference. Again, reporting this outcome is nonsense. See this thread and especially this example.

❝ Where can we learn how to run PowerTOST ? Please advise.


See this post. The help-system will give you all the necessary steps. At the end of each page you find examples. If you are interested in the statistical background see BE_power_sample_size_excerpt.pdf in the folder PowerTOST/doc.

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