Sample Size Calculation for Rank Tests Comparing K Survival Distributions

Lifetime Data Analysis

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 361-373

  Jung, Sin Ho ^a   Hui, Siu ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accrual period; Follow up period; Logrank test; Noncentral 2 test; Wilcoxon test

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL; UNITED STATES;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; SAMPLING STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036884927     PISSN: 13807870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020518905233     Document Type: Article

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