Maximum of the weighted Kaplan-Meier tests with application to cancer prevention and screening trials

Biometrics

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 837-843

  Shen, Yu ^a   Cai, Jianwen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b IL   (United States)

Author keywords

Log rank test; Maximum weighted Kaplan Meier test; Screening clinical trials; Survival curve comparisons

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; STATISTICAL TESTS;

CLINICAL TRIAL; CURVES COMPARISONS; KAPLAN-MEIER; LOG-RANK TEST; MAXIMUM WEIGHTED KAPLAN-MEIER TEST; RANK TEST; SCREENING CLINICAL TRIAL; SURVIVAL CURVE COMPARISON; SURVIVAL CURVES; TEST STATISTICS;

STATISTICS;

BIOMETRY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0034875207     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0006-341X.2001.00837.x     Document Type: Article

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