Rank tests for clustered survival data when dependent subunits are randomized

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 361-373

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

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

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical trial; Frailty model; Intracluster correlation coefficient; Logrank test; Welcoxon test

Indexed keywords

ALLOGRAFT; ARTICLE; BURN; CARCINOGENESIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; LOG RANK TEST; NONHUMAN; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; RANDOMIZATION; RANK SUM TEST; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALS; BURNS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HLA ANTIGENS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEOPLASMS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RATS; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 31744441630     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2218     Document Type: Article

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