February, 2003
© 2000 Scott S. Emerson, M.D., Ph.D.
Session 4: 32
Orderings of the Outcome Space
Analysis time ordering (Jennison and Turnbull, 1983; Tsiatis, Rosner, and Mehta, 1984)
Results leading to earlier stopping are more extreme
·Linearizes the outcome space
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·Does not require knowledge of future analysis times
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·Not defined for two-sided tests with early stopping for both null and alternative