An efficient and exact approach for detecting trends with binary endpoints

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 155-164

  Shan, Guogen ^a   Ma, Changxing ^a   Hutson, Alan D ^a   Wilding, Gregory E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cochran Armitage test; Contingency tables; E+M p value; Exact tests; Nuisance parameters; Unconditional test

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; COCHRAN ARMITAGE STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; CONTINGENCY TABLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EXACT TESTING APPROACH; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 84855229728     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.4411     Document Type: Article

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