An efficient and exact approach for detecting trends with binary endpoints

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-29-2012

Publication Title

Statistics in Medicine

Volume

31

Issue

2

First page number:

155

Last page number:

164

Abstract

Lloyd (Aust. Nz. J. Stat., 50, 329-345, 2008) developed an exact testing approach to control for nuisance parameters, which was shown to be advantageous in testing for differences between two population proportions. We utilized this approach to obtain unconditional tests for trends in 2 × K contingency tables. We compare the unconditional procedure with other unconditional and conditional approaches based on the well-known Cochran-Armitage test statistic. We give an example to illustrate the approach, and provide a comparison between the methods with regards to type I error and power. The proposed procedure is preferable because it is less conservative and has superior power properties.

Keywords

Clinical trials; Clinical trials—Methodology; Clinical trials--Statistical methods; Clinical Trials as Topic/methods; Clinical Trials as Topic/statistics & numerical data; Cochran–Armitage test; Confidence intervals; Contingency tables; Data Interpretation; Statistical; Dose-Response Relationship; Drug; Drugs--Dose-response relationship; Exact tests; E + M p-value; Humans; Men; Models; Statistical; Nuisance parameters; Translating and interpreting--Data processing; Unconditional test; Women

Disciplines

Medicine and Health Sciences | Statistical Methodology | Statistical Models | Statistics and Probability | Vital and Health Statistics

Language

English

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