Asymptotic comparison of step-down and step-up multiple test procedures based on exchangeable test statistics

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 505-524

  Finner, H ^a   Roters, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bonferroni inequality; comparisons with a control; exchangeable random variables; extreme order statistic; familywise error rate; joint distribution of order statistics; many one problem; maximum statistic; multiple comparisons; multiple level; step down test

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032339950     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1028144847     Document Type: Article

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