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From: Using Trial Sequential Analysis for estimating the sample sizes of further trials: example using smoking cessation intervention

Fig. 2

I. Trial Sequential Analysis output of the MiQuit feasibility trial with the pilot trial removed, using 90% power, 5% significance, to detect a 3.4% absolute difference. Diversity = 0%. Point A on the z-curve represents the feasibility trial. Monitoring boundaries in Fig. 1 use the Lan-DeMets O’Brien-Fleming alpha-spending approach. II. Point C represents a theoretical trial with a sample size of 630 women, where an absolute difference of 3.17% was observed, in favour of the MiQuit group, between the experimental versus the control group. Diversity = 0%. III. Point D represents a theoretical trial with a sample size of 630 women, with an absolute difference of − 0.63% in favour of the control group. Diversity = 30%

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