Empirical Likelihood Approaches to Two-Group Comparisons of Upper Quantiles Applied to Biomedical Data

Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 30-40

  Yu, Jihnhee ^a   Vexler, Albert ^a   Hutson, Alan D ^a   Baumann, Heinz ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

0.9 quantile; 0.95 quantile; Comparative effectiveness research; Quantile comparison; Reference range

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CHLORHEXIDINE;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; EMPIRICAL LIKELIHOOD APPROACH; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; HEALTH; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PLUG IN APPROACH; PNEUMONIA; QUANTILE COMPARISON; SAMPLE SIZE; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS;

EID: 84893929871     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19466315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19466315.2013.826597     Document Type: Article

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