Pairwise comparisons of treatments with ordinal responses in a two-way setting

Tong-Yu Lu, Yueqiong Lin and Junjiang Zhong

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 2017, vol. 46, issue 21, 10549-10563

Abstract: In clinical studies, pairwise comparisons are frequently performed to examine differences in efficacy between treatments. The statistical methods of pairwise comparisons are available when treatment responses are measured on an ordinal scale. The Wilcoxon–Mann–Whitney test and the latent normal model are popular examples. However, these procedures cannot be used to compare treatments in parallel groups (a two-way design) when overall type I error must be controlled. In this paper, we explore statistical approaches to the pairwise testing of treatments that satisfy the requirements of a two-way layout. The results of our simulation indicate that the latent normal approach is superior to the Wilcoxon–Mann–Whitney test. Clinical examples are used to illustrate our suggested testing methods.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1080/03610926.2016.1239111

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