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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Sep 16.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Cancer Res. 2009 Mar 10;15(6):1883–1890. doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-08-2031

Table 1.

Approximate required numbers of observed (total) treatment failures for screening trials with PFS endpoints, using the logrank test

Error rates Hazard Ratios (Δ)
Δ=1.3 Δ=1.4 Δ=1.5 Δ=1.75
(α,β)=(10%,10%) 382 232 160 84
(α,β)=(10%,20%)
 or (20%,10%)
262 159 110 58
(α,β)=(20%,20%) 165 100 69 36

Note: Calculations were carried out using nQueryAdvisor 5.0 software (Statistical Solutions, Saugus, MA) based on methods given in Collett [26] with 1-sided α