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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: JAMA Neurol. 2017 May 1;74(5):540–548. doi: 10.1001/jamaneurol.2016.5953

Table 4.

Power Calculations for a Theoretical Clinical Trial: Sample Sizes for Fixed Treatment Effects and 80% Power

Braak stage Drug effect
NP test All High Moderate Low Placebo slope SE % Improvement Drug Slope Power
CDR-SOB 130 130 130 1.071 0.054 0.2 0.857 0.803
0 0 420 0.916 0.046 0.2 0.733 0.803
0 700 0 0.858 0.043 0.2 0.686 0.808
230 0 0 1.439 0.073 0.2 1.151 0.799
1176 1.172 0.059 0.2 0.938 0.800
58 58 58 1.071 0.081 0.3 0.750 0.804
0 0 185 0.916 0.069 0.3 0.641 0.799
0 305 0 0.858 0.065 0.3 0.601 0.800
103 0 0 1.439 0.109 0.3 1.007 0.802
523 1.172 0.089 0.3 0.821 0.800
Logical 197 197 197 –0.710 0.036 0.2 –0.568 0.800
memory 0 0 1095 –0.454 0.023 0.2 –0.363 0.800
0 400 0 –0.842 0.043 0.2 –0.674 0.800
552 0 0 –0.834 0.042 0.2 –0.668 0.799
1575 –0.677 0.034 0.2 –0.542 0.801
88 88 88 –0.710 0.054 0.3 –0.497 0.802
0 0 490 –0.454 0.034 0.3 –0.317 0.803
0 178 0 –0.842 0.064 0.3 –0.590 0.800
246 0 0 –0.834 0.063 0.3 –0.584 0.800
700 –0.677 0.051 0.3 –0.474 0.801
Vegetable 927 927 927 –0.599 0.030 0.2 –0.480 0.800
naming 0 0 40600 –0.202 0.010 0.2 –0.162 0.800
0 1550 0 –0.692 0.035 0.2 –0.554 0.800
735 0 0 –0.904 0.046 0.2 –0.723 0.801
928 –0.887 0.045 0.2 –0.709 0.800
412 412 412 –0.599 0.045 0.3 –0.420 0.800
0 0 18050 –0.202 0.015 0.3 –0.141 0.800
0 690 0 –0.692 0.052 0.3 –0.485 0.801
326 0 0 –0.904 0.068 0.3 –0.633 0.800
413 –0.887 0.067 0.3 –0.621 0.801