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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Oct 30.
Published in final edited form as: Stat Med. 2016 May 18;35(24):4285–4305. doi: 10.1002/sim.6989

Table 5.

Power figures for the CLL trial based on the CAT-BUB design, the beta-binomial design with an efficacy test only (BB-EO), and the hierarchical beta-binomial design with an efficacy test followed by a toxicity test (BB-ET). Comparisons of θFC,E vs θF,E and θFC,T vs θF,T are characterized as being “equivalent” (=), or having “moderate” (>), “large” (), or “very large” (≫>) differences.

Scenario Probability of Final Conclusion
Beta-Binomial Designs
Efficacy Toxicity CAT-BUB Design Efficacy Only Efficacy then Toxicity
FC vs F FC vs F θU,FC–F FC > F F > FC FC > F F > FC FC > F F > FC
1.0: = = 0.0 0.025 0.025 0.026 0.024 0.024 0.025
1.1: = > −5.2 0.001 0.222 0.019 0.035 0.007 0.388
1.2: = −11.9 0.000 0.782 0.012 0.047 0.005 0.982

2.0: > = 6.8 0.352 0.000 0.402 0.000 0.289 0.010
2.1: > > 1.1 0.041 0.012 0.331 0.000 0.226 0.308
2.2: > −6.5 0.000 0.314 0.278 0.000 0.173 0.818

3.0: = 13.5 0.903 0.000 0.910 0.000 0.846 0.002
3.1: > 7.3 0.397 0.000 0.873 0.000 0.778 0.097
3.2: −1.1 0.041 0.015 0.816 0.000 0.716 0.281

4.0: ≫> = 21.0 1.000 0.000 1.000 0.000 1.000 0.000
4.1: ≫> > 14.2 0.917 0.000 1.000 0.000 0.999 0.001
4.2: ≫> 5.0 0.201 0.001 0.999 0.000 0.997 0.003