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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Nov 17.
Published in final edited form as: Stat Med. 2008 Oct 30;27(24):4874–4894. doi: 10.1002/sim.3334

Table I.

The comparison of operational methods and the nominal level of α among several proposed BE tests.

Paper Operational Method
Metzler [2] and Kirkwood [20] 100(1 − α)% confidence interval
FDA [10] 100(1 − 2α)% confidence interval
Westlake [21] 100(1 − α)% symmetric confidence interval
Anderson and Hauck [22] P-value (level α)
Locke [23] 100(1 − α)% confidence interval
Schuirmann [24] two one-sided tests (level α for each test)