# ssizeEpiInt: Sample Size Calculation Testing Interaction Effect for Cox...

### Description

Sample size calculation testing interaction effect for Cox proportional hazards regression with two covariates for Epidemiological Studies. Both covariates should be binary variables. The formula takes into account the correlation between the two covariates.

### Usage

 1 ssizeEpiInt(X1, X2, failureFlag, power, theta, alpha = 0.05) 

### Arguments

 X1 a nPilot by 1 vector, where nPilot is the number of subjects in the pilot data set. This vector records the values of the covariate of interest for the nPilot subjects in the pilot study. X1 should be binary and take only two possible values: zero and one. X2 a nPilot by 1 vector, where nPilot is the number of subjects in the pilot study. This vector records the values of the second covariate for the nPilot subjects in the pilot study. X2 should be binary and take only two possible values: zero and one. failureFlag a nPilot by 1 vector of indicators indicating if a subject is failure (failureFlag=1) or alive (failureFlag=0). power postulated power. theta postulated hazard ratio. alpha type I error rate.

### Details

This is an implementation of the sample size calculation formula derived by Schmoor et al. (2000) for the following Cox proportional hazards regression in the epidemoilogical studies:

h(t|x_1, x_2)=h_0(t)\exp(β_1 x_1+β_2 x_2 + γ (x_1 x_2)),

where both covariates X_1 and X_2 are binary variables.

Suppose we want to check if the hazard ratio of the interaction effect X_1 X_2=1 to X_1 X_2=0 is equal to 1 or is equal to \exp(γ)=θ. Given the type I error rate α for a two-sided test, the total number of subjects required to achieve the desired power 1-β is:

n=\frac{≤ft(z_{1-α/2}+z_{1-β}\right)^2 G}{ [\log(θ)]^2 ψ (1-p) p (1-ρ^2) },

where ψ is the proportion of subjects died of the disease of interest, and

ρ=corr(X_1, X_2)=(p_1-p_0)\times√{\frac{q(1-q)}{p(1-p)}},

and p=Pr(X_1=1), q=Pr(X_2=1), p_0=Pr(X_1=1|X_2=0), and p_1=Pr(X_1=1 | X_2=1), and

G=\frac{[(1-q)(1-p_0)p_0+q(1-p_1)p_1]^2}{(1-q)q (1-p_0)p_0 (1-p_1) p_1},

and p0=Pr(X_1=1 | X_2=0)=myc/(mya+myc), p1=Pr(X_1=1 | X_2=1)=myd/(myb+myd), p=Pr(X_1=1)=(myc+myd)/n, q=Pr(X_2=1)=(myb+myd)/n, n=mya+myb+myc+myd.

p_{00}=Pr(X_1=0,\mbox{and}, X_2=0), p_{01}=Pr(X_1=0,\mbox{and}, X_2=1), p_{10}=Pr(X_1=1,\mbox{and}, X_2=0), p_{11}=Pr(X_1=1,\mbox{and}, X_2=1).

p_{00}, p_{01}, p_{10}, p_{11}, and ψ will be estimated from the pilot data.

### Value

 n the total number of subjects required. p estimated Pr(X_1=1) q estimated Pr(X_2=1) p0 estimated Pr(X_1=1 | X_2=0) p1 estimated Pr(X_1=1 | X_2=1) rho2 square of the estimated corr(X_1, X_2) G a factor adjusting the sample size. The sample size needed to detect an effect of a prognostic factor with given error probabilities has to be multiplied by the factor G when an interaction of the same magnitude is to be detected. mya estimated number of subjects taking values X_1=0 and X_2=0. myb estimated number of subjects taking values X_1=0 and X_2=1. myc estimated number of subjects taking values X_1=1 and X_2=0. myd estimated number of subjects taking values X_1=1 and X_2=1. psi proportion of subjects died of the disease of interest.

### References

Schmoor C., Sauerbrei W., and Schumacher M. (2000). Sample size considerations for the evaluation of prognostic factors in survival analysis. Statistics in Medicine. 19:441-452.

ssizeEpiInt.default0, ssizeEpiInt2

### Examples

 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8  # generate a toy pilot data set X1 <- c(rep(1, 39), rep(0, 61)) set.seed(123456) X2 <- sample(c(0, 1), 100, replace = TRUE) failureFlag <- sample(c(0, 1), 100, prob = c(0.25, 0.75), replace = TRUE) ssizeEpiInt(X1, X2, failureFlag, power = 0.88, theta = 3, alpha = 0.05) 

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