Journal
COMPUTATIONAL STATISTICS & DATA ANALYSIS
Volume 69, Issue -, Pages 114-121Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2013.07.037
Keywords
Pre-post intervention; McNemar's test; Sample size; Dropout
Funding
- NIH [UL1TR000451, P30CA142543]
- CPRIT [RP110562-C1]
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Pre- and post-intervention experiments are widely used in medical and social behavioral studies, where each subject is supposed to contribute a pair of observations. In this paper we investigate sample size requirement for a scenario frequently encountered by practitioners: all enrolled subjects participate in the pre-intervention phase of study, but some of them will drop out due to various reasons, thus resulting in missing values in the post-intervention measurements. Traditional sample size calculation based on McNemar's test could not accommodate missing data. Through the GEE approach, we derive a closed-form sample size formula that properly accounts for the impact of partial observations. We demonstrate that when there are no missing data, the proposed sample size estimate under the GEE approach is very close to that under McNemar's test. When there are missing data, the proposed method can lead to substantial saving in sample size. Simulation studies and an example are presented. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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