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. 2022 Sep 14;23:775. doi: 10.1186/s13063-022-06493-5

Table 2.

The probability of any given safety event occurring at least once or at least twice given a true population event rate of between 1.0 and 20.0% according to the indicated samples sizes per group

True event rate (%) n = 30 n = 60 n = 150
Probability of at least 1 event Probability of at least 2 events Probability of at least 1 event Probability of at least 2 events Probability of at least 1 event Probability of at least 2 events
20 99.9 98.9 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
10 95.8 81.6 99.8 98.6 100.0 100.0
7.5 90.4 66.9 99.1 94.5 100.0 100.0
5 78.5 44.6 95.4 80.8 100.0 99.6
2.5 53.2 17.2 78.1 44.4 97.8 89.1
1 26.0 3.6 45.3 12.1 77.9 44.3