Identification of the minimum effective dose based on weighted Kaplan-Meier statistics

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 619-634

  Chang, Yu Mei ^a   Chen, Yuh Ing ^b  

^a TUNGHAI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Closed test; Dose response study; Minimum effective dose; Monte carlo study; Right censored data

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957555614     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: 15635163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949650903451769     Document Type: Article

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