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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Oct 21.
Published in final edited form as: J Stat Softw. 2008 Nov 13;28(7):1. doi: 10.18637/jss.v028.i07

Table 1.

Program inputs (with notation from Coffey and Muller 2001).

GLUMIP Symbol Dimensions Description
Required design parameters:
ESSENCEX Es (X+) g × q Essence design matrix
ALPHAT α t 1 × 1 Target type I error rate
POWERT Pt 1 × 1 Target power
C C a × q Contrast matrix
BETA_PLN β * q × 1 Primary parameters for power calculations
SIGMAO σ02 1 × 1 Planning variance estimate
Required fixed parameters:
GAMLIST γ 1 × h List of gamma values: γ=σ2σ02
BETA_ALT β q × 1 True primary parameters
Required internal pilot rules:
N1 n 1 1 × 1 Internal pilot sample size
NPLUSMIN n +,min 1 × 1 Minimum final sample size
RULE 1 × 1 Sample size re-estimation rule
TEST 1 × 1 Testing method
Optional inputs:
WEIGHTS g × 1 Weights for rows of Es (X+) per replication
NPLUSMAX n +,max 1 × 1 Maximum final sample size
ROUND 1 × 1 Places to round N+ pdf relative to αt (1-10)