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| Authors: | Hojin Moon, Hongshik Ahn, Ralph L. Kodell |
| Title: | [download] (789)A Computational Tool for Testing Dose-related Trend Using an Age-adjusted Bootstrap-based Poly-k Test |
| Reference: | Vol. 16, Issue 7, Aug 2006 Submitted 2004-11-16, Accepted 2006-08-04 |
| Type: | Article |
| Abstract: | A computational tool for testing for a dose-related trend and/or a pairwise difference in the incidence of an occult tumor via an age-adjusted bootstrap-based poly-k test and the original poly-k test is presented in this paper. The poly-k test (Bailer and Portier 1988) is a survival-adjusted Cochran-Armitage test, which achieves robustness to effects of differential mortality across dose groups. The original poly-k test is asymptotically standard normal under the null hypothesis. However, the asymptotic normality is not valid if there is a deviation from the tumor onset distribution that is assumed in this test. Our age-adjusted bootstrap-based poly-k test assesses the significance of assumed asymptotic normal tests and investigates an empirical distribution of the original poly-k test statistic using an age-adjusted bootstrap method. A tumor of interest is an occult tumor for which the time to onset is not directly observable. Since most of the animal carcinogenicity studies are designed with a single terminal sacrifice, the present tool is applicable to rodent tumorigenicity assays that have a single terminal sacrifice. The present tool takes input information simply from a user screen and reports testing results back to the screen through a user-interface. The computational tool is implemented in C/C++ and is applied to analyze a real data set as an example. Our tool enables the FDA and the pharmaceutical industry to implement a statistical analysis of tumorigenicity data from animal bioassays via our age-adjusted bootstrap-based poly-k test and the original poly-k test which has been adopted by the National Toxicology Program as its standard statistical test. |
| Paper: | [download] (789)A Computational Tool for Testing Dose-related Trend Using an Age-adjusted Bootstrap-based Poly-k Test (application/pdf, 813.3 KB) |
| Supplements: | [download] (148)E7171.exe: application (application/octet-stream, 184 KB) |
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| [download] (143)twogpexdata.txt: data text file (text/plain, 816 Bytes) |
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| [download] (129)E7171.zip: C++ files for application (application/x-zip-compressed, 20.7 KB) |
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| Resources: | BibTeX | OAI |