Linear rank tests for censored survival data

Communications in Statistics Part B: Simulation and Computation

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 21-36

  Shen, Wei ^a,b   Le, Chap T ^a,b  

^a ELI LILLY AND COMPANY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Crossing curves; Logrank test; Score functions; Wilcoxon test

Indexed keywords

EID: 32744467141     PISSN: 03610918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610910008813599     Document Type: Article

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