Rank tests for clustered survival data

Lifetime Data Analysis

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 21-33

  Jung, Sin Ho ^a   Jeong, Jong Hyeon ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Censoring; Intracluster correlation; Logrank test; Wilcoxon test

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL RATE;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0037364254     PISSN: 13807870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021869803601     Document Type: Article

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