Testing for the Proportionality of Hazards in Two Samples Against the Increasing Cumulative Hazard Ratio Alternative

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 637-647

  Sengupta, D ^a   Bhattacharjee, A ^b   Rajeev, B ^a  

^a INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

^b RESERVE BANK OF INDIA   (India)

Author keywords

Counting process; Graphical method; Hazard ratio; Martingale convergence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032352554     PISSN: 03036898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9469.00126     Document Type: Article

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