Powerful short-cuts for multiple testing procedures with special reference to gatekeeping strategies

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 22, 2007, Pages 4063-4073

  Hommel, Gerhard ^a   Bretz, Frank ^b   Maurer, Willi ^b  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bonferroni; Clinical trial; Closed tests; Consonance; Gatekeeping; Multiple tests

Indexed keywords

NEW DRUG; PLACEBO;

ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CLINICAL TRIAL; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; NULL HYPOTHESIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; QUALITY OF LIFE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; EUROPE; GATEKEEPING; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 34548604912     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2873     Document Type: Article

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