Optimally weighted, fixed sequence and gatekeeper multiple testing procedures

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 25-40

  Westfall, Peter H ^a   Krishen, Alok ^b  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United States)

Author keywords

62F03; Adjusted p value; Bonferroni inequality; Closed testing; Family wise error rate; Multiple comparisons

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042202937     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3758(01)00077-5     Document Type: Article

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