Generalized Supremum Tests for the Equality of Cause Specific Hazard Rates

Lifetime Data Analysis

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 277-288

  Kochar, Subhash C ^a   Lam, K F ^b   Yip, Paul S F ^b  

^a INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Competing risks; Counting processes; Cumulative incidence function; Martingales; Nelson Aalen estimator of cumulative hazard; Ordered alternatives

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; EXPERIMENTAL NEOPLASM; MALE; MORTALITY; MOUSE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RADIATION INJURY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; MALE; MICE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036715573     PISSN: 13807870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1015806021930     Document Type: Article

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