Statistical Tests of the Equality of Survival Curves: Reconsidering the Options

Handbook of Statistics

Volumn 23, Issue , 2003, Pages 251-262

  Suciu, Gabriel P ^a   Lemeshow, Stanley ^a   Moeschberger, Melvin ^a  

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EID: 33748073255     PISSN: 01697161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-7161(03)23013-3     Document Type: Review

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