Some versatile tests based on the simultaneous use of weighted log-rank statistics

Biometrics

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 721-725

  Lee, Jae Won ^a  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Supremum statistics; Survival distributions; Versatile test procedures; Weighted log rank statistics

Indexed keywords

LINEAR COMBINATIONS; RANK STATISTICS; SIMULATION STUDIES; SIMULTANEOUS USE; SUPREMA STATISTIC; SUPREMUM; SURVIVAL DISTRIBUTIONS; TEST PROCEDURES; VERSATILE TEST PROCEDURE; WEIGHTED LOG-RANK STATISTIC;

STATISTICS;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER REGRESSION; MORTALITY; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL;

EID: 8944257379     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2532911     Document Type: Article

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