Some scale estimators and lack-of-fit tests for the censored two-sample accelerated life model

Biometrics

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 1040-1052

  Yang, Song ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accelerated life; Censored data; Confidence intervals; Estimation; Lack of fit tests; Two sample scale problem

Indexed keywords

HAZARDS; SAMPLING;

ACCELERATED LIFE; ACCELERATED LIFE MODELS; ASYMPTOTIC RELATIVE EFFICIENCY; ASYMPTOTIC VARIANCE; CENSORED DATA; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; LACK-OF-FIT TEST; SIMPLE++; STATISTICAL INFERENCE; TWO-SAMPLE SCALE PROBLEM;

DISEASES;

ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; DATA ANALYSIS; HIGH RISK POPULATION; LIFE EVENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VAGINA CANCER;

ZEROS;

EID: 0031689488     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2533855     Document Type: Article

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