Chain procedures: A class of flexible closed testing procedures with clinical trial applications

Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 14-30

  Millen, Brian A ^a   Dmitrienko, Alex ^a  

^a ELI LILLY AND COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fallback; Familywise error rate (FWER) control; Multiple testing procedure; Tailored therapy

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ERROR; FAMILYWISE ERROR RATE; HUMAN; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; METRIC SYSTEM; MULTIPLE TESTING PROCEDURE; NULL HYPOTHESIS; PARAMETRIC TEST; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 79957529687     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19466315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/sbr.2010.09014     Document Type: Article

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