Improving the efficiency of the log-rank test using auxiliary covariates

Biometrika

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 679-694

  Lu, Xiaomin ^a   Tsiatis, Anastasios A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Efficient estimator; Influence function; Log rank test; Nuisance tangent space; Proportional hazard model; Regular and asymptotically linear estimator

Indexed keywords

EID: 50949092762     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: 14643510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/asn003     Document Type: Article

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