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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Jul 10.
Published in final edited form as: Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2023 Apr 5;50(9):2669–2682. doi: 10.1007/s00259-023-06209-0

TABLE 5.

Type I error and power (%) comparison when using both Centiloid-11C-PiB and Centiloid-18F-florbetapir in 1000 simulated clinical trials

No treatment effect (type I error comparison) With observed treatment effect (power comparison)
Percent (%) of participants scanned with 18F-florbetapir 100 75 50 25 0 100 75 50 25 0
20 participants per arm 4.8 9.3 14.8 9.7 4.3 52.9 63.3 65.0 72.5 84.3
32 participants per arm 4.9 8.2 14.6 9.4 5.7 74.4 81.1 83.7 88.4 98.0
40 participants per arm 4.5 8.0 15.0 9.6 4.9 85.0 88.2 88.6 93.9 98.9
With 5% annual dropout
20 participants per arm 4.6 9.8 12.2 8.5 4.1 48.7 54.8 60.7 67.2 76.5
32 participants per arm 6.0 8.6 13.6 9.9 5.7 67.8 73.1 76.6 84.9 92.1
40 participants per arm 4.7 8.0 11.9 9.4 5.0 78.5 82.2 85.5 94.4 97.6

Each simulated dataset was analyzed using linear mixed models and the treatment effect was defined as the difference between the slopes (annual rate of change in Centiloid). Two-sided t-tests were used with a nominal type I error of 5%.