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. 2011 Jun 30;11:102. doi: 10.1186/1471-2288-11-102

Table 1.

Estimates of the Minimum Detectable Difference (MDD) for trial with 20 clusters per arm, to detect an increase in an event rate from 40%

Power = 80% Power = 90%
40% vs 50% MDD 40% vs 50% MDD

ICC = 0.005 nI = 385 N/A nI = 515 N/A
nC = 440 nC = 600
m = 22 m = 30

ICC = 0.07 MDD = 12% MDD = 14%
nI = 267 nI = 262
nC = 3,780 nC = 2,920
m = 189 m = 146