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. 2012 Sep 5;7(9):e44013. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0044013

Table 1. The input macro parameters in the SAS macro %n_gssur.

Parameter Definition
m1 The median survival time of the control group.
m2 The median survival time of the treatment group.
t The maximum observed time of the trial.
dtr0 The survival distribution employed for sample size estimation. The options include ‘exp’ for exponential distribution and ‘weibull’ for Weibull distribution.
look The number of stages in the trial.
info The time points and their corresponding stopping boundaries for efficacy of the interim analysis.
min The starting number of sample size searching of the control group.
max The ending number of sample size searching of the control group.
len The length of increment of sample size searching.
r The sample size ratio of treatment and control groups.
drop The drop-out rate of the trial.
power The target overall power of the trial.
seed The number used to generate a stream of reproducible random numbers.
sim The number of simulated trials N.
path The path and name to save the result text file.