Likelihood approaches to the non-parametric two-sample problem for right-censored data

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 13, 2006, Pages 2284-2298

  Troendle, James F ^a   Yu, Kai F ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Empirical likelihood; Imputation; Non parametric maximum likelihood; Permutation

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BIOSTATISTICS; CLINICAL RESEARCH; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABOR INDUCTION; LOG RANK TEST; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; NULL HYPOTHESIS; NULLIPARA; PRIMIGRAVIDA; SAMPLE SIZE; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PREGNANCY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 33745612728     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2340     Document Type: Article

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