Adopting a unifying theme based on maximum statistics, "Multiple Comparisons Using R" describes the common underlying theory of multiple comparison procedures through numerous examples and presents a detailed description of available software implementations in R.

Frank Bretz is Global Head of the Statistical Methodology group at Novartis Pharma AG in Basel, Switzerland. He is also an adjunct professor at the Hannover Medical School in Germany.

Torsten Hothorn is a professor of biostatistics in the Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Germany.

Peter Westfall is James and Marguerite Niver and Paul Whitfield Horn Professor of Statistics and associate director of the Center for Advanced Analytics and Business Intelligence at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, USA.

Introduction. General Concepts. Multiple Comparisons in Parametric Models. Applications. Further Topics. Bibliography. Index.