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OCLC number
1224180971
Link(s) to full text
LAC copy
Author
Alshammari, Tariq.
Title
Contributions to multiple comparisons procedures.
Degree
Master of Science -- Acadia University, 2016
Publisher
[Wolfville, Nova Scotia] : Acadia University 2016
Description
1 online resource
Abstract
Risk assessment studies, in which human, animal or ecological data are used to set safe low dose levels of a toxic agent, are challenging as study information is limited to high dose levels of the agent. In the literature simultaneous inference for low-dose risk estimation with quantal data for multistage models and Abbott-adjusted models have been proposed but there is no simultaneous inference for log-probit models. In the first part of this thesis, we consider both hyperbolic bands and three-segment bands for log-probit models which are widely used in risk assessment. The proposed method is illustrated with real data applications. The second part of this thesis is about the parametric bootstrap (PB) approach which has been proposed by Krishnamoorthy et al. (2007). In certain types of applications, the prior knowledge imposes a prespecified order upon the population means. The PB approach is extended to construct one-sided simultaneous confidence intervals for pairwise comparisons in which order restrictions are imposed on the normal means when the variances are unequal.
Other link(s)
scholar.acadiau.ca
Subject
LE3 .A278 2016