Towards a practical approach for testing General Relativity with gravitational wave detections

The detection of gravitational waves in the advanced detector era will allow us to perform the first tests Einsteins's theory of gravity in the dynamical, strong-field regime. The parameterized post-Einsteinian waveform model provides a framework in which to develop powerful tests that can be applied to the signals from compact binary systems. We describe a practical implementation of such a testing scheme that optimally combines the information from multiple detections.