Evaluation of incidence rates in pre-clinical studies using a williams-type procedure

International Journal of Biostatistics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Hothorn, Ludwig A ^a   Sill, Martin ^b   Schaarschmidt, Frank ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Binomial; Ordered proportions; Simultaneous confidence intervals; Toxicology

Indexed keywords

NONYLPHENOL; CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERFORMANCE; RAT; RESPONSE VARIABLE; SAMPLE SIZE; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TOXICOLOGY; WILLIAMS TYPE MULTIPLE CONTRAST; ANIMAL; BIOMETRY; CARCINOGEN TESTING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; DOSE RESPONSE; EVALUATION; METHODOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

ANIMALS; BIOMETRY; CARCINOGENICITY TESTS; CONTRAST MEDIA; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; INCIDENCE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; TOXICOLOGY;

EID: 77952081169     PISSN: 15574679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1557-4679.1180     Document Type: Article

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