confidenceSim (version 0.1.0)

getAccrual: Get Accrual

Description

Generate patient accrual with Poisson distribution.

Usage

getAccrual(
  numsubjects,
  ppm,
  follow.up = 0,
  cont.recruit = FALSE,
  perpetual = FALSE
)

Value

Vector size of number of patients you need to get 'numsubjects' followup with values representing month of accrual.

Arguments

numsubjects

Maximum sample size. If perpetual is TRUE, a new maximum sample size is returned.

ppm

Patients accrued per month, as an array. Length of array is the number of months in the trial.

follow.up

Follow-up period in months.

cont.recruit

Whether to continue recruitment while waiting for follow up (TRUE) of not (FALSE).

perpetual

Whether to run trial perpetually (TRUE) or not (FALSE).

Examples

ppm <- rep(15, 300)
monthin <- getAccrual(1000, ppm, 0)
# monthin is of length 1000.