Dropouts continued [Two-Stage / GS Designs]
Hi ElMaestro,
had a closer look into the loss of power due to dropouts.
Larger is OK but too large isn’t. With the exception of Xu’s methods (my current favorite) you don’t reach the target power with small n1. ‘Potvin B’:
My current practice is to use n1 which is ~75–80% of the fixed sample design with a ‘best-guess’ CV. With n1 30 we exceed the target power with 83.4%, only 41.8% studies proceed to the second stage (i.e., you have a 56.6% chance to show BE already in the first), and the median total sample size is 30 (!). OK, the mean is 39… The distribution looks like that:
Even with a futility (Nmax 64) final power is with 77.6% close to the target but power in the first stage is still 56.6%. With a futility on the total sample size you can not only ease the sponsor but – hopefully – the BSWP. The Type I Error drops from 0.0440 to 0.0427.
I don’t like small first stages.
had a closer look into the loss of power due to dropouts.
❝ Let us say we look at e.g. CV=.3 and N1=12 (6 per sequence at stage 1). What would you expect in terms of power […], if 2 subjects go lost in sequence RT during stage 2?
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❝ […] stage 2's are often (not always, just often in practice) much larger than stage 1's…
Larger is OK but too large isn’t. With the exception of Xu’s methods (my current favorite) you don’t reach the target power with small n1. ‘Potvin B’:
power
n1 N (median) stage 1 final
12 44 0.0671 0.784
14 44 0.104 0.799
16 44 0.155 0.810
24 36 0.413 0.830
30 30 0.566 0.834
N power
44 0.779
43 0.768
42 0.757
41 0.745
40 0.733
My current practice is to use n1 which is ~75–80% of the fixed sample design with a ‘best-guess’ CV. With n1 30 we exceed the target power with 83.4%, only 41.8% studies proceed to the second stage (i.e., you have a 56.6% chance to show BE already in the first), and the median total sample size is 30 (!). OK, the mean is 39… The distribution looks like that:
Even with a futility (Nmax 64) final power is with 77.6% close to the target but power in the first stage is still 56.6%. With a futility on the total sample size you can not only ease the sponsor but – hopefully – the BSWP. The Type I Error drops from 0.0440 to 0.0427.
I don’t like small first stages.
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Complete thread:
- Potvin designs w. imbalance - what would you expect? ElMaestro 2017-08-17 13:02 [Two-Stage / GS Designs]
- Dropouts in stage 2 Helmut 2017-09-12 01:41
- Dropouts continuedHelmut 2017-09-19 17:17