Sample Size Determination in Clinical Trials with Multiple Endpoints

This book integrates recent methodological developments for calculating the sample size and power in trials with more than one endpoint considered as multiple primary or co-primary, offering an important reference work for statisticians working in this ar

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Takashi Sozu Tomoyuki Sugimoto Toshimitsu Hamasaki Scott R. Evans

Sample Size Determination in Clinical Trials with Multiple Endpoints 123

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Takashi Sozu Tomoyuki Sugimoto Toshimitsu Hamasaki Scott R. Evans •



Sample Size Determination in Clinical Trials with Multiple Endpoints

123

Toshimitsu Hamasaki National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center Osaka Japan

Takashi Sozu Faculty of Engineering Tokyo University of Science Tokyo Japan Tomoyuki Sugimoto Hirosaki University Graduate School of Science and Technology Hirosaki Japan

ISSN 2191-544X SpringerBriefs in Statistics ISBN 978-3-319-22004-8 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-22005-5

Scott R. Evans Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Harvard University Boston, MA USA

ISSN 2191-5458

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ISBN 978-3-319-22005-5

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Contents

1

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

2

Continuous Co-primary Endpoints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.2 Test Statistics and Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.2.1 Known Variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.2.2 Unknown Variance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.3 Sample Size Calculation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.4 Behavior of the Type I Error Rate, Power and Sample Size . 2.4.1 Type I Error Rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.4.2