Testing treatment effect by combining weighted log-rank tests and using empirical likelihood

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 77, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1385-1393

  Yang, Song ^a   Zhao, Yichuan ^b  

^a NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical trials; Crossing survival curves; Survival analysis; Weighted log rank tests

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249874918     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2007.03.025     Document Type: Article

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