Calculates the characteristics of a design and returns it.
Value
Returns a TrialDesignCharacteristics object.
The following generics (R generic functions) are available for this result object:
names()to obtain the field names,print()to print the object,summary()to display a summary of the object,plot()to plot the object,as.data.frame()to coerce the object to adata.frame,as.matrix()to coerce the object to amatrix.
Details
Calculates the inflation factor (IF), the expected reduction in sample size under H1, under H0, and under a value in between H0 and H1. Furthermore, absolute information values are calculated under the prototype case testing H0: mu = 0 against H1: mu = 1.
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See also
Other design functions:
getDesignConditionalDunnett(),
getDesignFisher(),
getDesignGroupSequential(),
getDesignInverseNormal(),
getGroupSequentialProbabilities(),
getPowerAndAverageSampleNumber()
Examples
if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# Calculate design characteristics for a three-stage O'Brien & Fleming
# design at power 90% and compare it with Pocock's design.
getDesignCharacteristics(getDesignGroupSequential(beta = 0.1))
getDesignCharacteristics(getDesignGroupSequential(beta = 0.1, typeOfDesign = "P"))
} # }