Skip to main content
. 2021 Jun 19;14(1):79–89. doi: 10.1007/s12561-021-09315-5

Table 5.

Overlapping coefficient, standardized overlapping coefficient, nominal number of patients to be borrowed, and power parameter (or exponent) in each stratum for arm B

PS stratum Total
1 2 3 4 5
Current study (n) 80 80 80 80 80 400
US registry (n) 320 279 253 210 130 1192
Overlapping coefficient 0.81 0.79 0.79 0.84 0.77
Standardized overlapping coefficient (%) 20 20 20 21 19 100
Patients borrowed (= 100 × Std. Overlap. Coef.) 20 20 20 21 19 100
α (or λ) [= Patients Borrowed/US Registry (n)] 0.06 0.07 0.08 0.10 0.15