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Generalized Tests in Clinical Trials

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Conventional statistical methods do not provide exact solutions to many statistical problems, such as those arising in ANOVA, mixed models and multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA), especially when the problem involves a number of nuisance parameters.

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    Stephan Ogenstad

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  1. Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia, USA

    Karl E. Peace

  2. School of Social Work & Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA

    Ding-Geng Chen

  3. Boston University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

    Sandeep Menon

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Ogenstad, S. (2018). Generalized Tests in Clinical Trials. In: Peace, K., Chen, DG., Menon, S. (eds) Biopharmaceutical Applied Statistics Symposium . ICSA Book Series in Statistics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7826-2_2

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