TY - JOUR
T1 - Some properties of non inferiority tests for two independent probabilities
AU - Almendra-Arao, Félix
AU - Sotres-Ramos, David
N1 - Funding Information:
The first author thanks SNI-CONACYT, COFAA-IPN, EDI-IPN, and project SIP-IPN 20100130 for partial funding of this work. The authors give special thanks to the referees for their suggestions. Finally, the authors want to express their deep gratitude to Diane Fumiko Miyoshi Udo for her help in correcting the English in this article.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - For exact tests of non inferiority for two independent binomial probabilities, in 1999 Röhmel and Mansmann proved that if a rejection region from an exact test fulfills the Barnard convexity condition, then the corresponding significance level can be computed as the maximum in a subset of the null space boundary. This is particularly important because computing time of significance levels is greatly reduced. Later, in 2000, Frick extended the Röhmel and Mansmann theorem to more general critical regions also corresponding to exact tests. In this article, we generalize Frick's theorem to both exact and asymptotic tests. Like the two theorems mentioned, in this article the resulting theorem also includes, as particular cases, non inferiority hypotheses for parameters such as difference between proportions, proportions ratio, and odds ratio for two independent binomial probabilities. Moreover, proof of this result follows a different line of reasoning than that followed by Frick and is much simpler. In addition, some applications of the main result are provided.
AB - For exact tests of non inferiority for two independent binomial probabilities, in 1999 Röhmel and Mansmann proved that if a rejection region from an exact test fulfills the Barnard convexity condition, then the corresponding significance level can be computed as the maximum in a subset of the null space boundary. This is particularly important because computing time of significance levels is greatly reduced. Later, in 2000, Frick extended the Röhmel and Mansmann theorem to more general critical regions also corresponding to exact tests. In this article, we generalize Frick's theorem to both exact and asymptotic tests. Like the two theorems mentioned, in this article the resulting theorem also includes, as particular cases, non inferiority hypotheses for parameters such as difference between proportions, proportions ratio, and odds ratio for two independent binomial probabilities. Moreover, proof of this result follows a different line of reasoning than that followed by Frick and is much simpler. In addition, some applications of the main result are provided.
KW - Asymptotic test
KW - Barnard convexity condition
KW - Exact test
KW - Non inferiority tests
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U2 - 10.1080/03610926.2010.547645
DO - 10.1080/03610926.2010.547645
M3 - Artículo
SN - 0361-0926
VL - 41
SP - 1636
EP - 1646
JO - Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods
JF - Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods
IS - 9
ER -