‘A powerful alternative to Williams’ test with application to toxicological dose-response relationships of normally distributed data |
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Authors: | Frank Bretz Ludwig A Hothorn |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Bioinformatics, University of Hanover, Herrenha¨user Str. 2, D-30419 Hanover, Germany |
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Abstract: | The comparison of increasing doses of a treatment to a negative control is frequently part of toxicological studies. For normally distributed data Williams (1971, 1972) introduced a maximum likelihood test under total order restriction. But until now there seems to have been no solution for the arbitrary unbalanced case. According to the idea proposed by Robertson et al. (1988) we will apply in this article the basic concept of Williams on the class of multiple contrast tests for the general unbalanced parametric set-up. Simulation results for size and power and two examples for estimating the minimal toxic dose (MTD) are given. |
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Keywords: | Williams test multiple contrast test MTD test on ordered alternatives multivariate t-distribution |
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