Sequential methods for comparing years of life saved in the two-sample censored data problem

Biometrics

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1085-1092

  Murray, Susan ^a   Tsiatis, Anastasios A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Group sequential monitoring; Nonparametric; Survival; Two sample test

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL RESEARCH; STATISTICAL TESTS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

CENSORED DATA; CLINICAL TRIAL; COVARIANCE STRUCTURES; DATA PROBLEMS; GROUP SEQUENTIAL MONITORING; NONPARAMETRICS; SEQUENTIAL METHODS; SURVIVAL; TEST STATISTICS; TWO-SAMPLE TESTS;

STATISTICS;

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC MODEL; SURVIVAL TIME;

EID: 0032734770     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0006-341X.1999.01085.x     Document Type: Article

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