sfLogistic {gsDesign} | R Documentation |
The functions sfLogistic()
, sfNormal()
, sfExtremeValue()
, sfExtremeValue2()
, sfCauchy()
,
and sfBetaDist()
are all 2-parameter spending function families.
These provide increased flexibility in some situations where the flexibility of a one-parameter spending function
family is not sufficient.
These functions all allow fitting of two points on a cumulative spending function curve; in this case, four parameters
are specified indicating an x and a y coordinate for each of 2 points.
Normally each of these functions will be passed to gsDesign()
in the parameter
sfu
for the upper bound or
sfl
for the lower bound to specify a spending function family for a design.
In this case, the user does not need to know the calling sequence.
The calling sequence is useful, however, when the user wishes to plot a spending function as demonstrated in the examples; note, however, that an automatic alpha- and beta-spending function plot is also available.
sfLogistic(alpha, t, param) sfNormal(alpha, t, param) sfExtremeValue(alpha, t, param) sfExtremeValue2(alpha, t, param) sfCauchy(alpha, t, param) sfBetaDist(alpha, t, param)
alpha |
Real value > 0 and no more than 1. Normally,
alpha=0.025 for one-sided Type I error specification
or alpha=0.1 for Type II error specification. However, this could be set to 1 if for descriptive purposes
you wish to see the proportion of spending as a function of the proportion of sample size or information. |
t |
A vector of points with increasing values from 0 to 1, inclusive. Values of the proportion of sample size or information for which the spending function will be computed. |
param |
In the two-parameter specification, sfBetaDist() requires 2 positive values, while
sfLogistic() , sfNormal() , sfExtremeValue() ,
sfExtremeValue2() and sfCauchy() require the first parameter
to be any real value and the second to be a positive value.
The four parameter specification is c(t1,t2,u1,u2)
where the objective is that sf(t1)=alpha*u1 and sf(t2)=alpha*u2 .
In this parameterization, all four values must be between 0 and 1 and t1 < t2 , u1 < u2 . |
sfBetaDist(alpha,t,param)
is simply alpha
times the incomplete beta cumulative distribution
function with parameters
a and b passed in param
evaluated at values passed in t
.
The other spending functions take the form
f(t;alpha,a,b)=alpha F(a+bF^{-1}(t))
where F() is a cumulative distribution function with values > 0 on the real line (logistic for sfLogistic()
,
normal for sfNormal()
, extreme value for sfExtremeValue()
and Cauchy for sfCauchy()
) and
F^{-1}() is its inverse.
For the logistic spending function this simplifies to
f(t;α,a,b)α (1-(1+e^a(t/(1-t))^b)^{-1}).
For the extreme value distribution with
F(x)=exp(-exp(-x))
this simplifies to
f(t;α,a,b)=α exp(-e^a (-ln t)^b).
Since the extreme value distribution is not symmetric, there is also a version
where the standard distribution is flipped about 0. This is reflected in sfExtremeValue2()
where
F(x)=1-exp(-exp(x)).
An object of type spendfn
. See Spending function overview
for further details.
The manual is not linked to this help file, but is available in library/gsdesign/doc/gsDesignManual.pdf in the directory where R is installed.
Keaven Anderson keaven_anderson@merck.
Jennison C and Turnbull BW (2000), Group Sequential Methods with Applications to Clinical Trials. Boca Raton: Chapman and Hall.
Spending function overview, gsDesign
, gsDesign package overview
# design a 4-analysis trial using a Kim-DeMets spending function # for both lower and upper bounds x<-gsDesign(k=4, sfu=sfPower, sfupar=3, sfl=sfPower, sflpar=1.5) # print the design x # plot the alpha- and beta-spending functions plot(x, plottype=5) # start by showing how to fit two points with sfLogistic # plot the spending function using many points to obtain a smooth curve # note that curve fits the points x=.1, y=.01 and x=.4, y=.1 # specified in the 3rd parameter of sfLogistic t <- 0:100/100 plot(t, sfLogistic(1, t, c(.1, .4, .01, .1))$spend, xlab="Proportion of final sample size", ylab="Cumulative Type I error spending", main="Logistic Spending Function Examples", type="l", cex.main=.9) lines(t, sfLogistic(1, t, c(.01, .1, .1, .4))$spend, lty=2) # now just give a=0 and b=1 as 3rd parameters for sfLogistic lines(t, sfLogistic(1, t, c(0, 1))$spend, lty=3) # try a couple with unconventional shapes again using # the xy form in the 3rd parameter lines(t, sfLogistic(1, t, c(.4, .6, .1, .7))$spend, lty=4) lines(t, sfLogistic(1, t, c(.1, .7, .4, .6))$spend, lty=5) legend(x=c(.0, .475), y=c(.76, 1.03), lty=1:5, legend=c("Fit (.1, 01) and (.4, .1)", "Fit (.01, .1) and (.1, .4)", "a=0, b=1", "Fit (.4, .1) and (.6, .7)", "Fit (.1, .4) and (.7, .6)")) # set up a function to plot comparsons of all # 2-parameter spending functions plotsf <- function(alpha, t, param) { plot(t, sfCauchy(alpha, t, param)$spend, xlab="Proportion of enrollment", ylab="Cumulative spending", type="l", lty=2) lines(t, sfExtremeValue(alpha, t, param)$spend, lty=5) lines(t, sfLogistic(alpha, t, param)$spend, lty=1) lines(t, sfNormal(alpha, t, param)$spend, lty=3) lines(t, sfExtremeValue2(alpha, t, param)$spend, lty=6, col=2) lines(t, sfBetaDist(alpha, t, param)$spend, lty=7, col=3) legend(x=c(.05, .475), y=.025*c(.55, .9), lty=c(1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7), col=c(1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 3), legend=c("Logistic", "Cauchy", "Normal", "Extreme value", "Extreme value 2", "Beta distribution")) } # do comparison for a design with conservative early spending # note that Cauchy spending function is quite different # from the others param <- c(.25, .5, .05, .1) plotsf(.025, t, param)