A pretest for choosing between logrank and wilcoxon tests in the two-sample problem

Metron

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 111-125

  Martinez, Ruvie Lou Maria C ^a   Naranjo, Joshua D ^a  

^a WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Lehmann alternative; Logrank; Pretest; Proportional hazards; Wilcoxon

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952130490     PISSN: 00261424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03263529     Document Type: Article

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