A two-stage procedure for comparing hazard rate functions

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B: Statistical Methodology

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 191-208

  Qiu, Peihua ^a   Sheng, Jun ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b Bristol West Insurance Group   (United States)

Author keywords

Additive tests; Censoring; Crossing hazard rates; Power; Proportional hazards regression; Resampling; Sequential tests; Significance level; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 37849005684     PISSN: 13697412     EISSN: 14679868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9868.2007.00622.x     Document Type: Article

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