Using prior information to allocate significance levels for multiple endpoints

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 18, 1998, Pages 2107-2119

  Westfall, Peter H ^a   Krishen, Alok ^b   Stanley Young, S ^b  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DATA ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BAYES THEOREM; CLINICAL TRIALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROBABILITY; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 0032582080     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19980930)17:18<2107::AID-SIM910>3.0.CO;2-W     Document Type: Article

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