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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Oct 6.
Published in final edited form as: Stat Med. 2015 Nov 11;35(9):1441–1453. doi: 10.1002/sim.6805

Table II.

Part I of this table gives the real and hypothetical scenarios for the observed cMaxSPRT statistics at each of the five sequential tests; part II shows the three first simulated cMaxSPRT values, under H0, for the sequential analysis over the hypothetical data.

Part I – test statistic information Part II – simulation photograph
Test ( j) kj Pkj U0,kj t = 1 2 3
Real scenario
Vt 11.214 11.031 8.772
1 4 0.183 5.297
2 8 1.507 1.914 Pt,4 4.597 4.265 5.793
3 12 2.638 1.776 Pt,8 8.483 7.765 7.665
4 16 3.766 1.750 Pt,12 12.622 10.246 13.308
5 20 5.942 0.890 Pt,16 14.337 14.321 14.903
Hypothetical scenario
Pl.20 18.494 16.690 19.418
1 4 1.195 0.319 Ut,4 0.000 0.000 0.099
2 8 1.935 1.065 Ut,8 0.000 0.002 0.000
3 12 3.494 0.748 Ut,12 0.000 0.074 0.000
4 16 4.486 1.005 Ut,16 0.055 0.042 0.000
5 20 5.784 0.992 Ut,20 0.034 0.122 0.000

The historical information used here are c = 11 and v = 5.3415.