P-values for two-sided comparisons with a control

Critical values for Dunnett's multiple comparison procedure for simultaneously comparing the means of several experimental treatments with the mean of a control treatment are available in many references. However, these values are primarily applicable to one-way analysis of variance with equal sample sizes for the experimental treatments. Even for this design, these critical values do not suffice for situations where the corresponding p-values are desired. Here the technique is presented for calculation of the p-value for multiple comparisons with a control when a general linear model is used for the analysis. A FORTRAN program using IMSL subroutines is described for the calculations.