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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Contemp Clin Trials. 2012 Jul 16;33(6):1280–1286. doi: 10.1016/j.cct.2012.07.007

Table 5.

Examples of trial monitoring boundaries

Information Fraction (% of Total Events) Reject H0
RR ≥ 0.80
Nominal one-sided p- values for rejection of H0 Reject H1
RR ≤ 0.60
25% (85 events) ≤ 0.3352 P ≤ 0.00001; Z = 4.010 ≥ 1.4320
50% (170 events) ≤ 0.5178 P ≤ 0.0023; Z = 2.836 ≥ 0.9269
75% (255 events) ≤ 0.5986 P ≤ 0.0103; Z = 2.315 ≥ 0.8018
100% (340 events) ≤ 0.6436 P ≤ 0.0225; Z = 2.005 ≥ 0.7457