Two-sample tests for growth curves under dependent right censoring

Biometrika

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 949-960

  Vardi, Yehuda ^a   Ying, Zhiliang ^a   Zhang, Cun Hui ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Area under curve; Hoeffding decomposition; Informative censoring; Tumour growth inhibition; U statistic; Wilcoxon Mann Whitney test

Indexed keywords

EID: 18044383141     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/88.4.949     Document Type: Article

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