Equivalence between score and weighted tests for survival curves

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 591-608

  Leton E ^a   Zuluaga, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Censored data; Comparison of survival functions; Non parametric tests in survival analysis; Regularity conditions; Tied observations

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034896340     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/STA-100002138     Document Type: Article

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