Nonparametric predictive multiple comparisons of lifetime data

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 41, Issue 22, 2012, Pages 4164-4181

  Coolen Maturi, Tahani ^a   Coolen Schrijner, Pauline ^b   Coolen, Frank P A ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crossing survival curves; Early termination; Lifetime data; Lower and upper probabilities; Nonparametric predictive inference; Precedence testing; Right censoring

Indexed keywords

EARLY TERMINATION; LIFETIME DATA; LOWER AND UPPER PROBABILITIES; NONPARAMETRIC PREDICTIVE INFERENCE; RIGHT CENSORING; SURVIVAL CURVES;

EXPERIMENTS;

VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

EID: 84868097931     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: 1532415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610926.2011.569863     Document Type: Article

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