Three methods for constructing parallel gatekeeping procedures in clinical trials

Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 768-786

  Dmitrienko, Alex ^a   Soulakova, Julia N ^b   Millen, Brian A ^a  

^a ELI LILLY AND COMPANY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical trials; Familywise error rate; Multiple tests; Power

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BONFERRONI PROCEDURE; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); CONTROL GROUP; HOCHBERG PROCEDURE; HOLM PROCEDURE; MATHEMATICAL AND STATISTICAL PROCEDURES; METHODOLOGY; NULL HYPOTHESIS; PARALLEL GATEKEEPING PROCEDURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL CONCEPTS; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ENDPOINT DETERMINATION; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE);

EID: 79957454229     PISSN: 10543406     EISSN: 15205711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10543406.2011.554130     Document Type: Article

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