A Method to Compare Two Samples of Recurrence Data

Lifetime Data Analysis

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 51-63

  Doganaksoy, Necip ^a   Nelson, Wayne ^b  

^a GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Nonparametric two sample comparison; Recurrent events data

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLADDER TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HUMAN; LIFE TABLE; RECURRENT DISEASE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LIFE TABLES; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RECURRENCE; SOFTWARE; TIME FACTORS; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0031637350     PISSN: 13807870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009604109069     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. D. F. Andrews and A. M. Herzberg, Data: A Collection of Problems from Many Fields for the Student and Research Worker, Springer-Verlag: New York, 1985.
2. H. Ascher and H. Feingold, Repairable Systems Reliability: Modeling, Inference, Misconceptions, and Their Causes, Marcel Dekker: New York, 1984.
3. D. P. Byar, "The veterans administration study of chemoprophylaxis for recurrent stage I bladder tumors: Comparisons of placebo, pyridoxine, and topical thiotepa," in Bladder Tumors and Other Topics in Urological Oncology, M. Pavone-Macaluso, P. H. Smith, and F. Edsmyn (eds.), pp. 363-370, Plenum: New York, 1980.
4. N. Doganaksoy and W. B. Nelson, "A method and computer program MCFDIFF to compare two samples of repair data," General Electric Corporate Research and Development TIS Report 91CRD172, Schenectady, NY 12301, 1991.
5. Max Engelhardt, "Models and analyses for the reliability of a single repairable system," in Recent Advances in Life-Testing and Reliability, N. Balakrishnan (ed.), pp. 79-106, CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL, 1995.
6. Wayne Nelson, Applied Life Data Analysis, Wiley: New York, 1982.
7. Wayne Nelson, "Graphical analysis of system repair data," J. of Quality Technology vol. 20 pp. 24-35, 1988.
8. Wayne Nelson, "Confidence limits for recurrence data - applied to cost or number of product repairs," Technometrics vol. 37 pp. 147-157, 1995.
9. W. B. Nelson and N. Doganaksoy, "A computer program for an estimate and confidence limits for the mean cumulative function for cost or number of repairs of repairable products," General Electric Co. Corp. Research & Development TIS Report 89CRD239, Schenectady, NY 12301, 1989.
10. J. A. Robinson, "Standard errors for the mean number of repairs on systems from a finite population," in Recent Advances in Life-Testing and Reliability, N. Balakrishnan (ed.), pp. 195-218, CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL, 1995.
11. SAS, "SAS/QC software: Changes and enhancements for release 6.12," SAS Inst., SAS Campus Drive, Cary, NC, 1997.
12. P. F. Thall and J. M. Lachin, "Analysis of recurrent events: Nonparametric methods for random interval count data," J. of the American Statistical Assoc. vol. 83 pp. 339-347, 1988.