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. 2009 Apr 17;10:21. doi: 10.1186/1745-6215-10-21

Table 5.

Re-analysis over two stages of trials with final result showing evidence of a difference employing PFS as an intermediate outcome.

ICON4 RE01

one-sided sig. eI % ρ eI % ρ
level at stage 1 err. err.

0.5 75 0.04 0.27 53 3.18 0.27

0.4 97 0.20 0.29 69 4.58 0.31

0.3 125 0.03 0.36 88 1.08 0.34

0.2 162 0.26 0.39 114 0.26 0.39

0.1 221 0.12 0.44 155 0.46 0.46

eI gives the number of control arm events for the significance level at stage 1, % err. gives the percentage of trials out of 5000 which were stopped, ρ gives the correlation between the test statistic at stage 1 on the intermediate outcome and at the final analysis on the primary outcome