Maximum type I error rate inflation from sample size reassessment when investigators are blind to treatment labels

Consider a parallel group trial for the comparison of an experimental treatment to a control, where the second‐stage sample size may depend on the blinded primary endpoint data as well as on additional blinded data from a secondary endpoint. For the setting of normally distributed endpoints, we demo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Żebrowska, Magdalena, Posch, Martin, Magirr, Dominic
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4851240/