Simultaneous confidence intervals on multivariate non-inferiority

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1720-1729

  Hasler, M ^a   Hothorn, L A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Intersection union test; Many to one comparison; Multiple endpoints; Simultaneous confidence intervals; Union intersection test

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DATA ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; NULL HYPOTHESIS; POST HOC ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

BIOSTATISTICS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84876454778     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.5633     Document Type: Article

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