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Calculates and returns the results from the closed conditional Dunnett test.

Usage

getClosedConditionalDunnettTestResults(
  stageResults,
  ...,
  stage = stageResults$stage
)

Arguments

stageResults

The results at given stage, obtained from getStageResults().

...

Ensures that all arguments (starting from the "...") are to be named and that a warning will be displayed if unknown arguments are passed.

stage

The stage number (optional). Default: total number of existing stages in the data input.

Value

Returns a ClosedCombinationTestResults object. The following generics (R generic functions) are available for this result object:

Details

For performing the conditional Dunnett test the design must be defined through the function getDesignConditionalDunnett().
See Koenig et al. (2008) and Wassmer & Brannath (2016), chapter 11 for details of the test procedure.

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Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# In a two-stage design a conditional Dunnett test should be performed
# where the  unconditional second stage p-values should be used for the
# test decision.
# At the first stage the second treatment arm was dropped. The results of
# a closed conditionsal Dunnett test are obtained as follows with the given
# data (treatment arm 4 refers to the reference group):
data <- getDataset(
    n1 = c(22, 23),
    n2 = c(21, NA),
    n3 = c(20, 25),
    n4 = c(25, 27),
    means1 = c(1.63, 1.51),
    means2 = c(1.4, NA),
    means3 = c(0.91, 0.95),
    means4 = c(0.83, 0.75),
    stds1 = c(1.2, 1.4),
    stds2 = c(1.3, NA),
    stds3 = c(1.1, 1.14),
    stds4 = c(1.02, 1.18)
)

# For getting the results of the closed test procedure, use the following commands:
design <- getDesignConditionalDunnett(secondStageConditioning = FALSE)
stageResults <- getStageResults(design, dataInput = data)
getClosedConditionalDunnettTestResults(stageResults)
} # }