Statistical evaluation of toxicological assays: Dunnett or Williams test - Take both

Archives of Toxicology

Volumn 87, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1901-1910

  Jaki, Thomas ^a   Hothorn, Ludwig A ^b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dunnett test; Multiple comparisons; R program; Repeated toxicity studies; Umbrella alternative; Williams test

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUNNETT TEST; EVALUATION; NONHUMAN; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PARAMETRIC TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TOXICITY TESTING; UMBRELLA PROTECTED WILLIAMS TEST; WILLIAMS TEST;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BIOMETRY; BLOOD UREA NITROGEN; BUTADIENES; CARCINOGENS; CHEMISTRY, CLINICAL; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENDPOINT DETERMINATION; EUGENOL; FUNGICIDES, INDUSTRIAL; HUMANS; NO-OBSERVED-ADVERSE-EFFECT LEVEL; SOFTWARE; TOXICITY TESTS; TOXICOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84886903839     PISSN: 03405761     EISSN: 14320738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00204-013-1065-x     Document Type: Article

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