Nonparametric methods for measurements below detection limit

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 700-715

  Zhang, Donghui ^a   Fan, Chunpeng ^a   Zhang, Juan ^a   Zhang, Cun Hui ^b  

^a SANOFI   (France)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Left censoring; Location shift model; The Gehan test; The limit of detection (LOD); The log rank test; The Peto Peto test; The Tobit model; The Wilcoxon rank sum test

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 9;

ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; GEHAN TEST; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PARAMETRIC TEST; PETO PETO TEST; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANK SUM TEST; SAMPLE SIZE; SIMULATION; BIOMETRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BIOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 63149172314     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3488     Document Type: Article

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