Holm's (1979) step-down and Hochberg's (1988)
step-up procedures for tests of multiple hypotheses are simple to apply and
are widely used. Holm's procedure controls the familywise error rate
(FWE), while Hochberg's is more powerful. This paper investigates a
step-down procedure (labelled CS) of Seneta & Chen (1997) which is a
sharpening of Holm's, takes into account the degree of association
between test statistics, and also controls the FWE. Computation for
the CS procedure may be minimized by using the procedure as an
adjustment to Holm's. The computational steps are detailed, and the
adjustment is then illustrated by an application to a text-book example of
multiple comparisons, in which step-wise procedures are shown to
perform better than the usual Tukey T-comparison. Simulation
investigations in a standard comparison with a control setting show
that the CS step-down procedure is more powerful than Hochberg's
step-up procedure and the procedure of Simes (1986), especially in
regard to error rate, and not much less powerful than an optimal, but
very specific, step-up procedure of Dunnett & Tamhane (1992).
@article{1112304810,
author = {Seneta, Eugene and Chen, John T.},
title = {Simple Stepwise Tests of Hypotheses and Multiple Comparisons},
journal = {Internat. Statist. Rev.},
volume = {73},
number = {1},
year = {2005},
pages = { 21-34},
language = {en},
url = {http://dml.mathdoc.fr/item/1112304810}
}
Seneta, Eugene; Chen, John T. Simple Stepwise Tests of Hypotheses and Multiple Comparisons. Internat. Statist. Rev., Tome 73 (2005) no. 1, pp. 21-34. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/1112304810/