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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Nov 27.
Published in final edited form as: Stat Methods Med Res. 2014 May 5;25(6):2733–2749. doi: 10.1177/0962280214531684

Table 2:

Number of simulations out of 10,000 that failed to satisfy convergence criteria, possessed a non-positive-definite Hessian matrix, or had a parameter with a large standard error (five or greater) for simulations using Lachenbruch’s62 sample size formula.

Mean difference between groups (τ) Percentage censored Gaussian pdf-cdf Bernoulli-Gaussian Long-term survivor Buckley-James
0.00 10
0.00 30
0.00 50 46
0.00 70 84
0.00 90 1 270

−0.25 10 2
−0.25 30
−0.25 50 35
−0.25 70 1 128
−0.25 90 15

−0.50 10 138 152
−0.50 30
−0.50 50 1 546
−0.50 70 2 592
−0.50 90 27 293

−0.75 10 2167 2253
−0.75 30 9 117
−0.75 50 97 918
−0.75 70 261 1555
−0.75 90 99 99 848 929

−1.00 10 5986 6906
−1.00 30 536 1317
−1.00 50 654 1330
−1.00 70 39 39 1389 2086
−1.00 90 1257 1257 3302 2164