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. 2019 May 10;29(6):1715–1727. doi: 10.1177/0962280219846146

Table 2.

Probability of stratified and unstratified randomization procedures to keep the 5% level for BSD(9), CR, EBC(0.67) and PBR(4) depending on the amount of selection η=0,0.2 and time-trend bias Θ=0,0.2 for different allocation ratios and analysis using weighted (wj*), unweighted (wj = 1) and unstratified (us) t test.

Allocation ratio Θ η Randomization procedure Stratified randomization
Unstratified randomization
wj* test wj = 1 test us-test wj* test wj = 1 test us-test
2060 0.2 0 BSD (9) 0.65 0.31 0.71 0.67 0.31 0.67
CR 0.66 0.32 0.68 0.66 0.32 0.68
EBC (0.67) 0.90 0.47 0.95 0.84 0.47 0.96
PBR (4) 1.00 0.97 1.00 1.00 0.97 1.00
0 0.2 BSD (9) 0.45 0.15 0.54 0.43 0.15 0.53
CR 0.45 0.16 0.54 0.44 0.16 0.55
EBC (0.67) 0.15 0.05 0.23 0.23 0.05 0.24
PBR (4) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
0.2 0.2 BSD (9) 0.48 0.18 0.62 0.48 0.18 0.61
CR 0.48 0.18 0.62 0.48 0.18 0.60
EBC (0.67) 0.28 0.09 0.83 0.34 0.09 0.84
PBR (4) 0.03 0.00 1.00 0.03 0.00 1.00
4040 0.2 0 BSD (9) 0.66 0.36 0.75 0.66 0.36 0.65
CR 0.67 0.36 0.67 0.67 0.36 0.67
EBC (0.67) 0.89 0.60 0.97 0.82 0.60 0.96
PBR (4) 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00
0 0.2 BSD (9) 0.45 0.22 0.53 0.45 0.22 0.54
CR 0.44 0.21 0.54 0.45 0.21 0.54
EBC (0.67) 0.15 0.05 0.24 0.22 0.05 0.25
PBR (4) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
0.2 0.2 BSD (9) 0.48 0.25 0.67 0.48 0.25 0.61
CR 0.48 0.25 0.62 0.47 0.25 0.61
EBC (0.67) 0.27 0.11 0.86 0.33 0.11 0.84
PBR (4) 0.01 0.00 1.00 0.01 0.00 1.00
8 × 10 0.2 0 BSD (2) 0.72 0.11 0.97 0.61 0.11 0.66
CR 0.61 0.08 0.68 0.62 0.08 0.68
EBC (0.67) 0.70 0.10 0.91 0.64 0.10 0.96
PBR (2) 1.00 0.37 1.00 0.72 0.37 1.00
0 0.2 BSD (2) 0.00 0.00 0.25 0.03 0.00 0.54
CR 0.03 0.00 0.54 0.03 0.00 0.54
EBC (0.67) 0.00 0.00 0.26 0.01 0.00 0.24
PBR (2) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
0.2 0.2 BSD (2) 0.00 0.00 0.82 0.04 0.00 0.60
CR 0.04 0.00 0.61 0.03 0.00 0.61
EBC (0.67) 0.00 0.00 0.77 0.01 0.00 0.85
PBR (2) 0.00 0.00 1.00 0.00 0.00 1.00

BSD: big stick design; EBC: Efron's biased coin design; PBR: permuted block randomization; CR: complete randomization.