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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">JDS</journal-id>
      <journal-title-group>
        <journal-title>Journal of Data Science</journal-title>
      </journal-title-group>
      <issn pub-type="epub">1680-743X</issn>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">1680-743X</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>SOSRUC</publisher-name>
      </publisher>
    </journal-meta>
    <article-meta>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">080403</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.6339/JDS.2010.08(4).630
</article-id>
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        <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
          <subject>Research Article</subject>
        </subj-group>
      </article-categories>
      <title-group>
        <article-title>A Bayesian Approach to Successive Comparisons</article-title>
      </title-group>
      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Aghamohammadi</surname>
            <given-names>A.</given-names>
          </name>
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        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_JDS_aff_000">Tarbiat Modares University</aff>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Meshkani</surname>
            <given-names>M. R.</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_JDS_aff_001"/>
        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_JDS_aff_001">Shahid Beheshti University</aff>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Mohammadzadeh</surname>
            <given-names>M.</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_JDS_aff_002"/>
        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_JDS_aff_002">Tarbiat Modares University</aff>
      </contrib-group>
      <volume>8</volume>
      <issue>4</issue>
      <fpage>541</fpage>
      <lpage>553</lpage>
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        <p>Abstract: The present article discusses and compares multiple testing procedures (MTPs) for controlling the family wise error rate. Machekano and Hubbard (2006) have proposed empirical Bayes approach that is a resampling based multiple testing procedure asymptotically controlling the familywise error rate. In this paper we provide some additional work on their procedure, and we develop resampling based step-down procedure asymptotically controlling the familywise error rate for testing the families of one-sided hypotheses. We apply these procedures for making successive comparisons between the treatment effects under a simple-order assumption. For example, the treatment means may be a sequences of increasing dose levels of a drug. Using simulations, we demonstrate that the proposed step-down procedure is less conservative than the Machekano and Hubbard’s procedure. The application of the procedure is illustrated with an example.</p>
      </abstract>
      <kwd-group>
        <label>Keywords</label>
        <kwd>Bayesian inference</kwd>
        <kwd>familywise error rate</kwd>
        <kwd>MCMC</kwd>
      </kwd-group>
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