A Dunnett-Bonferroni-based parallel gatekeeping procedure for dose-response clinical trials with multiple endpoints

Pharmaceutical Statistics

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 301-316

  Xu, Haiyan ^a   Nuamah, Isaac ^a   Liu, Jingyi ^b   Lim, Pilar ^a   Sampson, Allan ^c  

^a JOHNSON AND JOHNSON PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Bonferroni inequality; Clinical trials; Dose response; Dunnett test; Multiple endpoints; Parallel gatekeeping procedures

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BIOMETRY; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GATEKEEPING; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 73949133096     PISSN: 15391604     EISSN: 15391612     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pst.358     Document Type: Article

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