Selection of hypothesis weights and ordering when testing multiple hypotheses in clinical trials

Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1403-1419

  Wiens, Brian L ^a   Dmitrienko, Alex ^b   Marchenko, Olga ^b  

^a ALCON RESEARCH LTD   (United States)

^b IQVIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical trials; Hypothesis weighting; Multiple testing procedures; Power; Type I error rate

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DECISION MAKING; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MONTGOMERY ASBERG DEPRESSION RATING SCALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CLINICAL TRIALS, PHASE III AS TOPIC; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HAPLOTYPES; HLA ANTIGENS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS, CHRONIC PROGRESSIVE; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHARMACOGENETICS; RESEARCH DESIGN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84887011742     PISSN: 10543406     EISSN: 15205711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10543406.2013.834920     Document Type: Article

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