A new method for the comparison of survival distributions

Pharmaceutical Statistics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 67-76

  Lin, Xun ^a   Xu, Qiang ^b  

^a PFIZER INC   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Kolmogorov Smirnov test; Log rank test; Statistical power; Survival analysis; Wilcoxon test

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KOLMOGOROV SMIRNOV TEST; LOG RANK TEST; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OVERALL SURVIVAL; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; SAMPLE SIZE; SURVIVAL RATE; WILCOXON SIGNED RANKS TEST;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RENAL DIALYSIS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 77950526618     PISSN: 15391604     EISSN: 15391612     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pst.376     Document Type: Article

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