Age-adjusted exact trend tests in the event of rare occurrences

Biometrics

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 403-412

  Mancuso, Jessica Y ^a   Ahn, Hongshik ^b   Chen, James J ^c   Mancuso, James P ^a  

^a PFIZER GLOBAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b Stony Brook University   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR TOXICOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Dose response; Exact poly 3 test; Exact randomization test; Permutation; Peto cause of death test; Survival adjustment

Indexed keywords

INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

CAUSES OF DEATH; DOSE RESPONSE; EXACT POLY-3 TEST; EXACT RANDOMIZATION TEST; PERMUTATION; PETO CAUSE-OF-DEATH TEST; RANDOMIZATION TESTS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL ADJUSTMENT; TREND TESTS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

CAUSE OF DEATH; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP;

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENICITY; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NONHUMAN; RANDOMIZATION; RAT; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; AGE; ANIMAL; BIOMETRY; CARCINOGEN TESTING; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; EXPERIMENTAL NEOPLASM; METHODOLOGY; TOXICOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; GADUS MORHUA;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BIOMETRY; CARCINOGENICITY TESTS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; TOXICOLOGY;

EID: 0035989844     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0006-341X.2002.00403.x     Document Type: Article

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