Figures & data
Table 1. The eight predictive powers with historical and interim data, their analytical expressions, the predictive distributions, the data used, and the references for the hypotheses versus
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Table 2. The eight predictive powers with historical and interim data, their analytical expressions, the predictive distributions, and the data used for the reversed hypotheses versus
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Table 3. The eight predictive powers with historical and interim data of eventual conclusions for the B-14 trial after the first interim analysis in 1993. Two prior distributions are considered: a sceptical prior and an optimistic prior.
Table 4. The increase–decrease characteristics of ,
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and
for
observed from Figure .
Table 5. The increase–decrease characteristics of ,
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for i = 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8 observed from Figure .
Table 6. The increase–decrease characteristics of ,
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and
for
observed from Figure .