wp.mrt2arm | R Documentation |
Multisite randomized trials (MRT) are a type of multilevel design for the situation when the entire cluster is randomly assigned to either a treatment arm or a control arm (Liu, 2013). The data from MRT can be analyzed in a two-level hierarchical linear model, where the indicator variable for treatment assignment is included in first level. If a study contains multiple treatments, then multiple indicators will be used. This function is for designs with 2 arms (i.e., a treatment and a control). Three types of tests are considered in the function: (1) The "main" type tests treatment main effect; (2) The "site" type tests the variance of cluster/site means; and (3) The "variance" type tests variance of treatment effects. Details leading to power calculation can be found in Raudenbush (1997) and Liu (2013).
wp.mrt2arm(n = NULL, f = NULL, J = NULL, tau00 = NULL, tau11 = NULL,
sg2 = NULL, power = NULL, alpha = 0.05, alternative = c("two.sided",
"one.sided"), type = c("main", "site", "variance"), interval = NULL)
n |
Sample size. It is the number of individuals within each cluster. |
f |
Effect size. It specifies the main effect of treatment, the mean difference between the treatment clusters/sites and the control clusters/sites. Effect size must be positive. |
J |
Number of clusters / sites. It tells how many clusters are considered in the study design. At least two clusters are required. |
tau00 |
Variance of cluster/site means. It is one of the residual variances in the second level. Its value must be positive. |
tau11 |
Variance of treatment effects across sites. It is one of the residual variances in the second level. Its value must be positive. |
sg2 |
Level-one error Variance. The residual variance in the first level. |
power |
Statistical power. |
alpha |
significance level chosed for the test. It equals 0.05 by default. |
alternative |
Type of the alternative hypothesis ( |
type |
Type of effect ( |
interval |
A vector containing the end-points of the interval to be searched for the root. |
An object of the power analysis.
Liu, X. S. (2013). Statistical power analysis for the social and behavioral sciences: basic and advanced techniques. Routledge.
Raudenbush, S. W. (1997). Statistical analysis and optimal design for cluster randomized trials. Psychological Methods, 2(2), 173.
Zhang, Z., & Yuan, K.-H. (2018). Practical Statistical Power Analysis Using Webpower and R (Eds). Granger, IN: ISDSA Press.
#To calculate the statistical power given sample size and effect size:
#For main effect
wp.mrt2arm(n = 45, f = 0.5, J = 20, tau11 = 0.5,
sg2 = 1.25, alpha = 0.05, power = NULL)
# Power analysis for Multileve model Multisite randomized trials with 2 arms
#
# J n f tau11 sg2 power alpha
# 20 45 0.5 0.5 1.25 0.8583253 0.05
#
# NOTE: n is the number of subjects per cluster
# URL: http://psychstat.org/mrt2arm
#For variance of treament effect
wp.mrt2arm(n = 45, f = 0.5, J = 20, tau11 = 0.5,
sg2 = 1.25, alpha = 0.05, power = NULL, type = "variance")
# Power analysis for Multileve model Multisite randomized trials with 2 arms
#
# J n f tau11 sg2 power alpha
# 20 45 0.5 0.5 1.25 0.9987823 0.05
#
# NOTE: n is the number of subjects per cluster
# URL: http://psychstat.org/mrt2arm
#For testing site variablity
res<- wp.mrt2arm(n = 45, J = 20, tau00 = 0.5,
sg2 = 1.25, alpha = 0.05, power = NULL, type = "site")
# Power analysis for Multileve model Multisite randomized trials with 2 arms
#
# J n tau00 sg2 power alpha
# 20 45 0.5 1.25 0.9999999 0.05
#
# NOTE: n is the number of subjects per cluster
# URL: http://psychstat.org/mrt2arm
#To generate a power curve given a sequence of sample sizes:
res <- wp.mrt2arm(n = seq(10,50,5), f = 0.5, J = 20, tau11 = 0.5,
sg2 = 1.25, alpha = 0.05, power = NULL)
# Power analysis for Multileve model Multisite randomized trials with 2 arms
#
# J n f tau11 sg2 power alpha
# 20 10 0.5 0.5 1.25 0.6599499 0.05
# 20 15 0.5 0.5 1.25 0.7383281 0.05
# 20 20 0.5 0.5 1.25 0.7818294 0.05
# 20 25 0.5 0.5 1.25 0.8090084 0.05
# 20 30 0.5 0.5 1.25 0.8274288 0.05
# 20 35 0.5 0.5 1.25 0.8406659 0.05
# 20 40 0.5 0.5 1.25 0.8506049 0.05
# 20 45 0.5 0.5 1.25 0.8583253 0.05
# 20 50 0.5 0.5 1.25 0.8644864 0.05
#
# NOTE: n is the number of subjects per cluster
# URL: http://psychstat.org/mrt2arm
#To plot the power curve:
plot(res)
#To calculate the required sample size given power and effect size:
wp.mrt2arm(n = NULL, f = 0.5, J = 20, tau11 = 0.5,
sg2 = 1.25, alpha = 0.05, power = 0.8)
# Power analysis for Multileve model Multisite randomized trials with 2 arms
#
# J n f tau11 sg2 power alpha
# 20 23.10086 0.5 0.5 1.25 0.8 0.05
#
# NOTE: n is the number of subjects per cluster
# URL: http://psychstat.org/mrt2arm
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