Simultaneous confidence intervals for ratios with applications to the comparison of several treatments with a control

Methods of Information in Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 465-469

  Dilba, Gemechis ^a,d   Bretz, F ^b   Guiard, V ^c   Hothorn, L A ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR FARM ANIMAL BIOLOGY FBN   (Germany)

^d Bioinformatics Unit   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bonferroni; Fieller's theorem; Many to one comparisons; Multivariate t distribution; Simultaneous confidence sets

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PLACEBO;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BODY WEIGHT; BONFERRONI INTERVAL; CHRONIC TOXICITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIELLER THEOREM; LEPROSY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RAT; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 11144328071     PISSN: 00261270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1633899     Document Type: Conference Paper

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