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. 2012 Jul 11;31(29):3874–3884. doi: 10.1002/sim.5468

Table II.

Admissible pairings for a Shuster-type trial; p0 = 0.2, p1 = 0.4, α = 0.1, β = 0.2

Design (n1, l1, u1, n2, u2) ESS (p0) Estimator | Bias (p1) | MSE (p1)
1. (11, 2, 5, 31, 10) 17.6 BC-MLE 8.25E − 03 1.79E − 02
1. (11, 2, 5, 31, 10) 17.6 UMVUE 0 2.10E − 02
2. (13, 3, 11, 34, 10) 18.3 BC-MLE 3.47E − 03 1.08E − 02
3. (16, 4, 13, 33, 10) 19.4 BC-MLE 2.61E − 03 9.83E − 03
4. (18, 4, 18, 31, 10) 21.7 UMVUE 0 8.98E − 03
5. (17, 3, 13, 30, 10) 22.9 BC-MLE 1.51E − 03 8.77E − 03
6. (13, 3, 12, 34, 10) 18.3 BC-MLE 2.95E − 03 1.08E − 02
7. (13, 3, 13, 34, 10) 18.3 BC-MLE 2.79E − 03 1.08E − 02
7. (13, 3, 13, 34, 10) 18.3 UMVUE 0 1.15E − 02
8. (16, 4, 14, 33, 10) 19.4 BC-MLE 2.21E − 03 9.87E − 03
9. (16, 4, 16, 33, 10) 19.4 UMVUE 0 1.01E − 02
10. (17, 3, 17, 30, 10) 22.9 UMVUE 0 8.79E − 03

Design numbers match with those in Figure 5 (right).