Adaptive Neyman's smooth tests of homogeneity of two samples of survival data

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 139, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3559-3569

  Kraus, David ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION THEORY AND AUTOMATION   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Censoring; Neyman's smooth test; Schwarz's selection rule; Survival analysis; Two sample test

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649945839     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2009.04.009     Document Type: Article

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