Multiple testing procedures based on weighted Kaplan-Meier statistics for right-censored survival data

• Published in: Statistics in medicine Vol. 24; no. 1; pp. 23 - 35
• Main Author: Chi, Yunchan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester, UK John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 15.01.2005; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: Administration, Oral; Antineoplastic Agents, Hormonal - administration & dosage; Antineoplastic Agents, Hormonal - therapeutic use; Carcinoma - drug therapy; Clinical trials; Computer Simulation; Diethylstilbestrol - administration & dosage; Diethylstilbestrol - therapeutic use; Double-Blind Method; Humans; Interleukins - therapeutic use; Kidney Neoplasms - drug therapy; Male; Monte Carlo Method; multiple testing procedure; Prostatic Neoplasms - drug therapy; Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic - methods; Research methodology; right-censored data; Survival Analysis; weighted Kaplan-Meier statistic

In clinical trials or drug development studies, researchers are often interested in identifying which treatments or dosages are more effective than the standard one. Recently, several multiple testing procedures based on weighted logrank tests have been proposed to compare several treatments with a...