Multiple testing to establish superiority/equivalence of a new treatment compared with k standard treatments

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 21, 1997, Pages 2489-2506

  Dunnett, Charles W ^a   Tamhane, Ajit C ^b,c  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG EFFICACY; HYPOTHESIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; STANDARD;

CLINICAL TRIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; DRUG THERAPY; EVALUATION STUDIES; HEPARIN; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; STATISTICS; STREPTOKINASE;

EID: 0030733612     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19971115)16:21<2489::AID-SIM684>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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