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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biometrics. 2011 Mar 1;67(3):1163–1170. doi: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2011.01561.x

Table 4.

Powers and Type I Errors under Three Sampling Priors for 12-Month TLF with (nt, nc) = (900, 300)

Fitting Prior γ Point Mass Sampling Prior at μc=logit(pc)
pc=8.0%
pc=9.2%
pc=10.0%
Power Type I Error Power Type I Error Power Type I Error
Hierarchical Prior
(ξ0, η0) = (0.01, 0.01) 0.95 0.894 0.068 0.841 0.044 0.788 0.032
0.96 0.880 0.058 0.816 0.037 0.757 0.027
0.97 0.854 0.046 0.782 0.027 0.714 0.020

Power Prior with a0k ~ beta(b01, b02) in (4.7)
(b01, b02) = (1, 1) 0.95 0.945 0.070 0.882 0.039 0.799 0.034
(b01, b02) = (1, 5) 0.95 0.916 0.061 0.832 0.033 0.760 0.026
(b01, b02) = (1, 10) 0.95 0.868 0.053 0.791 0.038 0.728 0.032

(b01, b02) = (1, 1) 0.96 0.935 0.055 0.880 0.022 0.765 0.026
0.97 0.917 0.041 0.848 0.015 0.719 0.009

(b01, b02) = (1, 5) 0.96 0.899 0.047 0.803 0.027 0.722 0.021