Stepwise Gatekeeping Procedures in Clinical Trial Applications

Biometrical Journal

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 984-991

  Dmitrienko, Alex ^a   Tamhane, Ajit C ^b   Wang, Xin ^b   Chen, Xun ^c  

^a ELI LILLY AND COMPANY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SANOFI   (France)

Author keywords

Clinical trials; Multiple comparisons; Stepwise tests

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL; GATEKEEPING; MULTIPLE COMPARISON; MULTIPLE TESTING PROBLEMS; MULTIPLE-DOSE; MULTIPLE-OBJECTIVES; NULL HYPOTHESIS; SEQUENTIAL MANNERS; STEPWISE TEST; TESTING STRATEGIES;

MEDICAL APPLICATIONS;

EID: 33846250302     PISSN: 03233847     EISSN: 15214036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bimj.200610274     Document Type: Article

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