Old references… [Power / Sample Size]

posted by Helmut Homepage – Vienna, Austria, 2021-09-14 19:46 (926 d 15:35 ago) – Posting: # 22571
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Hi Selwa,

❝ […] i will be very grateful if you forward me the scan of the article and others if you have any.


Check your inbox. ;-)

But again: Don’t rely on the results. An [image]-script at the end. Here the 95% confidence interval of the two studies of 500 mg IR metformin reported by Yuen et al.:

study  n CV.AUC  CI.CV.AUC CV.Cmax CI.CV.Cmax
    1 24  15.1% 11.7–21.5%   16.3% 12.6–23.2%
    2 12   9.5%  6.6–16.8%   12.1%  8.4–21.4%

Be prepared for the worst.
What shall we think about the three studies of 300 mg IR ranitidine in twelve subjects? The CV of AUC0–∞ in the third was twice the one of the second, whereas the CVs of Cmax were similar. On the other hand, the CV of Cmax in the first was twice the one of the third. That’s not helpful.

If you don’t find references for your drug with more consistent results, I recommend a pilot study or – possibly better – a two-stage design.


library(PowerTOST)
studies <- 2L
n       <- c(24L, 12L)
CV.AUC  <- c(15.1, 9.5)
CV.Cmax <- c(16.3, 12.1)
res <- data.frame(study = 1:studies, n = n,
                  CV.AUC = CV.AUC, CI.CV.AUC = NA_real_,
                  CV.Cmax = CV.Cmax, CI.CV.Cmax = NA_real_)
for (j in 1:nrow(res)) {
  tmp <- 100 * CVCL(CV = res$CV.AUC[j] / 100,
                    df = res$n[j] - 2,
                    side = "2-sided")
  res$CI.CV.AUC[j] <- paste0(sprintf("%.1f", tmp[1]), "\u2013",
                             sprintf("%.1f%%", tmp[2]))
  tmp <- 100 * CVCL(CV = res$CV.Cmax[j] / 100,
                    df = res$n[j] - 2,
                    side = "2-sided")
  res$CI.CV.Cmax[j] <- paste0(sprintf("%.1f", tmp[1]), "\u2013",
                             sprintf("%.1f%%", tmp[2]))
}
res$CV.AUC  <- sprintf("%4.1f%%", res$CV.AUC)
res$CV.Cmax <- sprintf("%4.1f%%", res$CV.Cmax)
print(res, row.names = FALSE)


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