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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jun 24.
Published in final edited form as: Stat Biopharm Res. 2015 Mar 4;7(2):81–94. doi: 10.1080/19466315.2015.1006373

Table 2.

The MSS and ASN (equally-sized groups), and expected number of stops for detecting the joint effects for both endpoints based on the assumption A1 from the PLACIDE clinical trial, with the overall power of 1 − β =0.80 at the one-sided significance level of α =0.025. The critical values are determined by the O’Brien-Fleming testing procedure for both endpoints, with the LD alpha-spending method with equally spaced information time.

Correlation Number of
analyses
MSS ASN Expected
number of
stops
0.0 2 2,232 2,099 1.88
3 2,250 1,950 2.60
4 2,264 1,894 3.35
5 2,270 1,858 4.09
0.3 2 2,220 2,056 1.85
3 2,238 1,921 2.58
4 2,248 1,859 3.31
5 2,260 1,827 4.04
0.5 2 2,212 2,030 1.84
3 2,226 1,899 2.56
4 2,240 1,839 3.28
5 2,250 1,805 4.01
0.8 2 2,200 1,997 1.82
3 2,220 1,879 2.54
4 2,232 1,816 3.25
5 2,240 1,780 3.97
0.99 2 2,200 1,993 1.81
3 2,214 1,872 2.54
4 2,232 1,813 3.25
5 2,240 1,777 3.97