The union closure method for testing a fixed sequence of families of hypotheses

Biometrika

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 391-401

  Kim, Han Joo ^a   Entsuah, A Richard ^b   Shults, Justine ^c  

^a Forest Laboratories   (United States)

^b MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical trial; Closed testing procedure; Familywise error rate; Gatekeeping strategy; Parallel gatekeeping procedure; Union closure method

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957829919     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: 14643510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/asr015     Document Type: Article

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