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The Importance of Beta, the Type II Error and Sample Size in the Design and Interpretation of the Randomized Control Trial: Survey of 71 Negative Trials
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Seventy-one "negative" randomized control trials were re-examined to determine if the investigators had studied large enough samples to give a high probability (greater than 0.90) of detecting a 25 per cent and 50 per cent therapeutic improvement in the response. Sixty-seven of the trials had a greater than 10 per cent risk of missing a true 25 per cent therapeutic improvement, and with the same risk, 50 of the trials could have missed a 50 per cent improvement. Estimates of 90 per cent confidence intervals for the true improvement in each trial showed that in 57 of these "negative" trials, a potential 25 per cent improvement was possible, and 34 of the trials showed a potential 50 per cent improvement. Many of the therapies labeled as "no different from control" in trials using inadequate samples have not received a fair test. Concern for the probability of missing an important therapeutic improvement because of small sample sizes deserves more attention in the planning of clinical trials.
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- Freiman, J. A., Chalmers, T. C., Smith, H., & Kuebler, R. R.
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- Smith, Harry
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- New England Journal of Medicine
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- Massachusetts Medical Society
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- 299
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- 690-694
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- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Statistical Methods in Epidemiology
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- Keywords
- type II error, sample size, randomized controlled trials, negative trial results, statistical power, confidence intervals, clinical trial design, trial interpretation
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- Clinical Trials as Topic, Humans, Probability, Research, Research Design, Therapeutics
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