A Nonparametric Multivariate Test for Monotone Trend with Pharmaceutical Applications
具有药物试验应用的非参数多变量单调趋势检验
During a drug trial, each subject may have many blood constituents measured at regular time intervals. The traditional method of evaluating such data using normal ranges has undergone much controversy in the clinical chemistry literature. We propose a new multivariate test for monotone trend based on Kendall's τ statistic as a way to test for change in blood constituents over the course of a drug experiment. The new test avoids the unrealistic assumptions and repeated…