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  • Pharmacometrics
  • Statistical inference

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  • Determining the minimum effective dose (MED) is crucial in dose-response studies.
  • Existing methods may lack sufficient power or have limitations in controlling error rates.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a novel statistical procedure for identifying the MED.
  • To control the familywise error rate (FWER) in dose-response analysis.

Main Methods:

  • Formulation of a sequence of decreasing null hypotheses assuming nondecreasing dose-response means.
  • Construction of a step-up multiple test procedure using maximum likelihood estimators for monotone normal means.

Main Results:

  • The proposed test demonstrates uniform superiority over Hsu and Berger's test (1999) when MED equals one.
  • Simulation studies indicate substantial power improvements compared to four competing methods.

Conclusions:

  • The developed step-up procedure offers a powerful and reliable approach for MED determination.
  • The method provides enhanced statistical power in dose-response studies, benefiting drug development.