Dealing with multiplicities in pharmacoepidemiologic studies

Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 95-100

  Rosenberger, William F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

confidence interval estimation; multiple testing problem; p values; probability error rate; tests of hypothesis; type I error

Indexed keywords

TRANQUILIZER;

DATA BASE; HUMAN; PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SHORT SURVEY; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 0029893213     PISSN: 10538569     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1557(199603)5:2<95::AID-PDS228>3.0.CO;2-4     Document Type: Short Survey

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