Nonparametric comparison of two survival functions with dependent censoring via nonparametric multiple imputation

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 462-475

  Hsu, Chiu Hsieh ^a   Taylor, Jeremy M G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Auxiliary variables; Dependent censoring; Log rank test; Multiple imputation; Wilcoxon test

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO; ZIDOVUDINE; 3'-AZIDO-3'-DEOXYTHYMIDINE 5'-TRIPHOSPHATE; ANTI HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS AGENT; DIDEOXYNUCLEOTIDE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; PYRIMIDINE NUCLEOTIDE; ZIDOVUDINE 5' TRIPHOSPHATE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LOG RANK TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RANK SUM TEST; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL RATE; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL;

ANTI-HIV AGENTS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIDEOXYNUCLEOTIDES; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; PLACEBOS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; THYMINE NUCLEOTIDES; ZIDOVUDINE;

EID: 63049126380     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3480     Document Type: Article

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