Two-sample density-based empirical likelihood ratio tests based on paired data, with application to a treatment study of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and severe mood dysregulation

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 1821-1837

  Vexler, Albert ^a   Tsai, Wan Min ^a   Gurevich, Gregory ^b   Yu, Jihnhee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b SCE Shamoon College of Engineering   (Israel)

Author keywords

Empirical likelihood; Exact tests; Likelihood ratio; Nonparametric test; Paired data; Paired t test; Two sample problem; Wilcoxon signed rank test

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DENSITY BASED EMPIRICAL LIKELIHOOD RATIO TEST; HUMAN; KOLMOGOROV SMIRNOV TEST; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD TEST; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MOOD DISORDER; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; SEVERE MOOD DYSREGULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; WILCOXON SIGNED RANKS TEST;

ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CHILD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84864025661     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.4467     Document Type: Article

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