title: Estimation and hypothesis testing of treatment effects in animal reproductive toxicology studies.
abstract: Healy (1) and Dempster et al. (8) proposed statistical methods to evaluate the treatment effects in animal reproductive toxicology research. Both methods assume homogeneous variance for the dams and the pups, respectively, in all the treatment groups. In this paper, via mixed effect modeling, we propose a method to estimate the treatment effects allowing heterogeneous variances for the dams and the pups, respectively, in different treatment groups. Covariates will also be included in the model. A procedure to test the fixed effects is also discussed. An example from an animal reproductive toxicological study is used to illustrate the procedures.
authors.affiliation: Schering-Plough Research Institute, Kenilworth, New Jersey.
authors.forename: K T
authors.initials: KT
authors.lastname: Tsai
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Hsu
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001835:Body Weight / Q000187:drug effects; D004353:Drug Evaluation, Preclinical / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D008098:Litter Size / Q000187:drug effects; D008297:Male; D015233:Models, Statistical; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D012098:Reproduction / Q000187:drug effects*; D018675:Toxicity Tests / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*