Hypothesis test
Power Analysis for Survival Studies
Power analysis for survival studies determines how many participants — and how many observed events — are required so that a log-rank test or Cox regression has a sufficient probability of detecting a clinically meaningful difference in survival between groups. The foundational formulas were derived by Schoenfeld (1981) and Lachin (1981) and remain the standard approach in clinical trial planning.
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- Schoenfeld, D. A. (1981). The asymptotic properties of nonparametric tests for comparing survival distributions. Biometrika, 68(1), 316–319. DOI: 10.1093/biomet/68.1.316 ↗
- Lachin, J. M. (1981). Introduction to sample size determination and power analysis for clinical trials. Controlled Clinical Trials, 2(2), 93–113. DOI: 10.1016/0197-2456(81)90001-5 ↗