Are multiple contrast tests superior to the ANOVA?

International Journal of Biostatistics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Konietschke, Frank ^a   Bösiger, Sandra ^b   Brunner, Edgar ^a   Hothorn, Ludwig A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Products GmbH   (Germany)

^c LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Analysis of variance; Least favorable configuration; Multiple contrast tests; Multivariate t distribution; One way layout; Sample size computations

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MULTIPLE CONTRAST TEST; NULL HYPOTHESIS; POWER ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 84881638141     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15574679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/ijb-2012-0020     Document Type: Article

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