Your role

As the statistician on the team, your job is to help your team make informed decisions on study design considerations, including:

• Decide on the number of clusters (health facilities) to include.
• Buffer for drop-out.
• Determining the necessary sample size and power for primary and secondary endpoints.
• Adjust for ICC.

Available data

In order to help you perform these critical calculations, we have pre-loaded all the fact sheets and data that your various team members have access to.

This includes:

• epi: data on malaria prevalence, incidence and test positivity rate
• health_facilities: data on health facilities in each region, the population they serve, and expected malaria cases per month
  
• cost_per_hf: fixed cost per health facility enrolled (in USD), including training, equipment, and administrative expenses.
• cost_per_sample: cost per sample enrolled (in USD), including collection, laboratory testing, consumables, and data management
• cost_transport_coast: transport cost per health facility (in USD) in the Coastal region
• cost_transport_highland: transport cost per health facility (in USD) in the Highland region
• cost_transport_forest: transport cost per health facility (in USD) in the Forest region
• cost_transport_urban: transport cost per health facility (in USD) in the Urban region

We have also pre-loaded the DRpower R package so you can access its functions if you need to!