Research Article

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

Table 2

FWE rates of the proposed and conventional adjustment procedures for and and log-normal survival distribution with and .

Sample sizeTestsProposed and conventional adjustment techniques
UnadjustedBonferroniSchefféSidakSMMTukeyProposed

50Fleming0.1880.0350.0230.0350.0350.0410.041
Log-rank0.1990.0380.0210.0380.0380.0430.043
ModPeto0.1870.0360.0230.0360.0360.0410.041
Peto0.1890.0350.0230.0360.0360.0410.041
Tarone0.1820.0320.0220.0330.0330.0410.041
Wilcoxon0.1820.0380.0190.0380.0380.0470.047

150Fleming0.2020.0460.0250.0460.0460.0510.051
Log-rank0.2200.0430.0300.0430.0430.0500.050
ModPeto0.2000.0450.0250.0460.0460.0510.051
Peto0.2010.0450.0250.0460.0460.0510.051
Tarone0.2100.0410.0290.0430.0430.0510.051
Wilcoxon0.1960.0440.0230.0440.0440.0510.051

250Fleming0.1960.0400.0240.0410.0410.0490.049
Log-rank0.2010.0370.0230.0370.0370.0440.044
ModPeto0.1970.0400.0240.0400.0400.0490.049
Peto0.1960.0400.0240.0410.0410.0490.049
Tarone0.1950.0450.0230.0460.0460.0490.049
Wilcoxon0.2020.0320.0210.0340.0340.0420.042