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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
28
pubmed:dateCreated
2007-10-30
pubmed:abstractText
A popular method to control multiplicity in confirmatory clinical trials is to use a so-called hierarchical, or fixed sequence, test procedure. This requires that the null hypotheses are ordered a priori, for example, in order of clinical importance. The procedure tests the hypotheses in this order using alpha-level tests until one is not rejected. It then stops, so that no subsequent hypotheses are eligible for rejection. This procedure strongly controls the familywise error rate (FWE), that is to say, the probability that any true hypotheses are rejected. This paper describes a simple generalization of this approach in which the null hypotheses are partially ordered. It is convenient to display the partial ordering in a directed acyclic graph (DAG). We consider sequentially rejective procedures based on the partial ordering, in which a hypothesis is tested only when all preceding hypotheses have been tested and rejected. In general such procedures do not control the FWE, but it is shown that when certain intersection hypotheses are added, strong control of the FWE is obtained. The purpose of the method is to construct inference strategies for confirmatory clinical trials that better reflect the trial objectives.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
0277-6715
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
Copyright 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
10
pubmed:volume
26
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
5116-24
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2007
pubmed:articleTitle
Constructing multiple test procedures for partially ordered hypothesis sets.
pubmed:affiliation
Biostatistics Department, Novo Nordisk, Denmark. DEd@novonordisk.com
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article