February, 2003
© 2000, 2001, 2003 Scott S. Emerson, M.D., Ph.D.
Session 1- Fixed Sample Design: 10
Scientific Hypotheses: Experimental Goal
Conditions under which current practice will be changed
Adopting a new treatment
·Superiority
-Better than using no treatment (efficacious)
-Better than some existing efficacious treatment
·Equivalence or Noninferiority
-Equal to some existing efficacious treatment
-Not markedly worse than some existing efficacious treatment