Sample Size Estimation

Introduction: In general, sample size calculation is conducted through a pre-study power analysis. Its purpose is to select an appropriate sample size in achieving a desired power for correctly detection of a pre-specified clinical meaningful difference at a given level of significance. This study/tool will provide statistical procedures for determination of sample size required not only for testing equality, but also for testing non-inferiority/superiority, equivalence (similarity), some survival analysis and phase II clinical trials designs that are commonly employed at various phases of clinical development. As a handful tool, it is very useful for clinical scientists and biostatisticians in the pharmaceutical industry, regulatory agencies, academia, and other researchers.

This program helps users to determine sample sizes and confidence intervals for a wide range of statistical techniques including means, proportions, survival analysis, phase II clinical trials, epidemiological studies and some general cases).

DIRECTIONS:


Means

 

Proportions

Survival Analysis

Phase II Clinical Trials

Epidemiological Studies

Confidence Intervals

Others

1. One-Sample Design
      Test for Equality
      Test for Non-Inferiority / Superiority
      Test for Equivalence

2. Two-Sample Parallel Design
      Test for Equality
      Test for Non-Inferiority / Superiority
      Test for Equivalence

3. Confidence Interval – Bristol

4. Compare Two Proportions – Casagrande, Pike & Smith

 

 

Note:

Parallel Design

A parallel design is a complete randomized design in which each subject receives one and only one treatment in a random fashion. It does not provide independent estimates for the intra-subject variability for each treatment. As a result, the assessment of treatment effect is made based on the total variability, which includes the inter-subject variability and the intra-subject variability.

 

Crossover Design

A crossver design is a modified randomized block design in which each block receives more than one treatment at different dosing periods. Subjects are randomly assigned to receive a sequence of treatments, which contains all the treatments in the study. The major advantage of a crossover design is that it allows a within subject comparison between subject variability from the comparison.