A novel sample size formula for the weighted log-rank test under the proportional hazards cure model

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• 作者：Xiaoping Xiong and Jianrong Wu
• 刊名：Pharmaceutical Statistics
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January/February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：16
• 期：1
• 页码：87-94
• 全文大小：783K
• ISSN：1539-1612

文摘

The treatment of cancer has progressed dramatically in recent decades, such that it is no longer uncommon to see a cure or log-term survival in a significant proportion of patients with various types of cancer. To adequately account for the cure fraction when designing clinical trials, the cure models should be used. In this article, a sample size formula for the weighted log-rank test is derived under the fixed alternative hypothesis for the proportional hazards cure models. Simulation showed that the proposed sample size formula provides an accurate estimation of sample size for designing clinical trials under the proportional hazards cure models.