TABLE 5.
Required number of clusters nC, empirical type I error ψ, empirical power ϕ, and predicted power corresponding to the interaction test. Notation: δ4 is the interaction effect size, is the mean cluster size, ρ is the ICC, CV is the coefficient of variation of cluster sizes. The results were based on 5,000 simulations.
| CV |
δ4 = 0.2 |
δ4 = 0.3 |
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| nC | ψ | ϕ | nC | ψ | ϕ | |||||
| ρ = 0.02 | 0 | 158 | 0.05 | 0.81 | 0.80 | 70 | 0.05 | 0.81 | 0.80 | |
| 0.3 | 158 | 0.05 | 0.82 | 0.80 | 70 | 0.05 | 0.81 | 0.80 | ||
| 0.6 | 156 | 0.05 | 0.80 | 0.80 | 70 | 0.05 | 0.81 | 0.80 | ||
| 0.9 | 156 | 0.05 | 0.80 | 0.80 | 70 | 0.04 | 0.80 | 0.80 | ||
| ρ = 0.05 | 0 | 154 | 0.05 | 0.81 | 0.80 | 70 | 0.05 | 0.82 | 0.81 | |
| 0.3 | 154 | 0.05 | 0.81 | 0.80 | 68 | 0.05 | 0.81 | 0.80 | ||
| 0.6 | 154 | 0.05 | 0.81 | 0.80 | 68 | 0.05 | 0.80 | 0.80 | ||
| ρ = 0.05 | 0.9 | 154 | 0.05 | 0.80 | 0.80 | 68 | 0.05 | 0.80 | 0.80 | |
| 0.9 | 154 | 0.05 | 0.80 | 0.80 | 68 | 0.05 | 0.80 | 0.80 | ||
| ρ = 0.10 | 0 | 148 | 0.05 | 0.83 | 0.80 | 66 | 0.05 | 0.83 | 0.81 | |
| 0.3 | 148 | 0.05 | 0.82 | 0.80 | 66 | 0.06 | 0.81 | 0.81 | ||
| 0.6 | 146 | 0.05 | 0.80 | 0.80 | 66 | 0.05 | 0.82 | 0.81 | ||
| 0.9 | 146 | 0.05 | 0.81 | 0.80 | 66 | 0.05 | 0.81 | 0.81 | ||
| ρ = 0.02 | 0 | 64 | 0.05 | 0.81 | 0.81 | 28 | 0.05 | 0.81 | 0.81 | |
| 0.3 | 64 | 0.05 | 0.82 | 0.81 | 28 | 0.05 | 0.80 | 0.81 | ||
| 0.6 | 64 | 0.05 | 0.81 | 0.81 | 28 | 0.05 | 0.81 | 0.81 | ||
| 0.9 | 64 | 0.05 | 0.81 | 0.81 | 28 | 0.05 | 0.79 | 0.81 | ||
| ρ = 0.05 | 0 | 62 | 0.05 | 0.82 | 0.81 | 28 | 0.05 | 0.82 | 0.82 | |
| 0.3 | 62 | 0.06 | 0.82 | 0.81 | 28 | 0.05 | 0.81 | 0.82 | ||
| 0.6 | 62 | 0.05 | 0.80 | 0.81 | 28 | 0.05 | 0.82 | 0.82 | ||
| 0.9 | 62 | 0.05 | 0.81 | 0.81 | 28 | 0.05 | 0.81 | 0.82 | ||
| ρ = 0.10 | 0 | 58 | 0.05 | 0.81 | 0.80 | 26 | 0.05 | 0.81 | 0.81 | |
| 0.3 | 58 | 0.05 | 0.81 | 0.80 | 26 | 0.05 | 0.81 | 0.81 | ||
| 0.6 | 58 | 0.05 | 0.81 | 0.80 | 26 | 0.05 | 0.80 | 0.81 | ||
| 0.9 | 58 | 0.06 | 0.79 | 0.80 | 26 | 0.05 | 0.78 | 0.81 | ||
| ρ = 0.02 | 0 | 32 | 0.05 | 0.81 | 0.81 | 14 | 0.05 | 0.80 | 0.81 | |
| 0.3 | 32 | 0.05 | 0.81 | 0.81 | 14 | 0.05 | 0.80 | 0.81 | ||
| 0.6 | 32 | 0.04 | 0.82 | 0.81 | 14 | 0.05 | 0.78 | 0.81 | ||
| 0.9 | 32 | 0.05 | 0.80 | 0.81 | 14 | 0.05 | 0.77 | 0.81 | ||
| ρ = 0.05 | 0 | 32 | 0.05 | 0.83 | 0.82 | 14 | 0.05 | 0.81 | 0.82 | |
| 0.3 | 32 | 0.05 | 0.82 | 0.82 | 14 | 0.05 | 0.81 | 0.82 | ||
| 0.6 | 32 | 0.04 | 0.83 | 0.82 | 14 | 0.05 | 0.80 | 0.82 | ||
| 0.9 | 32 | 0.06 | 0.81 | 0.82 | 14 | 0.05 | 0.78 | 0.82 | ||
| ρ = 0.10 | 0 | 30 | 0.05 | 0.82 | 0.82 | 14 | 0.05 | 0.83 | 0.84 | |
| 0.3 | 30 | 0.05 | 0.82 | 0.82 | 14 | 0.05 | 0.84 | 0.84 | ||
| 0.6 | 30 | 0.05 | 0.82 | 0.82 | 14 | 0.05 | 0.82 | 0.84 | ||
| 0.9 | 30 | 0.05 | 0.81 | 0.82 | 14 | 0.05 | 0.80 | 0.84 | ||