Research Article

Pairwise Multiple Comparison Adjustment Procedure for Survival Functions with Right-Censored Data

Table 1

FWE rates of the proposed and conventional adjustment procedures for and and exponential survival distribution with .

Sample sizeTestsProposed and conventional adjustment techniques
UnadjustedBonferroniSchefféSidakSMMTukeyProposed

50Fleming0.1940.0390.0310.0400.0400.0530.053
Log-rank0.1870.0400.0240.0400.0400.0460.046
ModPeto0.1960.0400.0310.0430.0430.0540.054
Peto0.1940.0390.0310.042 0.0420.0540.054
Tarone0.1930.0410.0270.0410.0410.0530.053
Wilcoxon0.2040.0430.0290.0440.0440.0520.052

150Fleming0.2060.0340.0220.0350.0350.0390.039
Log-rank0.1850.0360.0190.0370.0370.0440.044
ModPeto0.2040.0330.0230.0340.0340.0380.038
Peto0.2060.0340.0220.0340.0340.0380.038
Tarone0.1980.0350.0200.0350.0350.0450.045
Wilcoxon0.2110.0380.0230.0380.0380.0450.045

250Fleming0.2140.0450.0320.0460.0460.0570.057
Log-rank0.2090.0430.0300.0440.0440.0490.049
ModPeto0.2140.0450.0320.0460.0460.0570.057
Peto0.2140.0450.0320.0460.0460.0570.057
Tarone0.2100.0470.0330.0470.0470.0540.054
Wilcoxon0.2090.0440.0290.0450.0450.0560.056