Adaptive test for testing the difference in survival distributions

Lifetime Data Analysis

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 223-238

  Pecková, Monika ^a   Fleming, Thomas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Censored data; Hodges Lehmann estimator; Weighted logrank

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; SURVIVAL; UNITED STATES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 1542704060     PISSN: 13807870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1025822717910     Document Type: Article

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