Testing whether one risk progresses faster than the other in a competing risks problem

Statistics and Risk Modeling

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 209-222

  Dykstra, Richard ^a   Robertson, Tim ^a   Kochar, Subhash ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Brownian bridge; Cause specific hazard rate; conditional tests; peakedness of distributions; positive likelihood ratio dependence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039979214     PISSN: 21931402     EISSN: 21967040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1524/strm.1996.14.3.209     Document Type: Article

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