A comparison of some two-sample tests with interval censored data

Journal of Nonparametric Statistics

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 133-146

  Pan, Wei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

IWD test; NPMLE; Permutation tests; Rank invariant tests; Simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010964924     PISSN: 10485252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10485259908832801     Document Type: Article

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