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Fig. 2 | BMC Medical Research Methodology

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From: Value of information methods to design a clinical trial in a small population to optimise a health economic utility function

Fig. 2

Optimal (a) sample size, n∗, (b) type II error rate, β∗, in order to detect an alternative θ A =σ0/2=$24819 (c) \(z_{\alpha }^{*}\) and (d) type I error rate, α∗ against the size of the population, N, with fixed \(\mu _{0}=\$96000,\sigma _{0}^{2}=(\$49638)^{2}\), τ2=($363202)2, c1=$5000,c2=$61032 and c f =$1 million

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