Comparing Survival Curves Using Rank Tests

✍ Scribed by W. Albers

• Book ID: 102759360
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 559 KB
• Volume: 33
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0323-3847
• DOI: 10.1002/bimj.4710330205

✦ Synopsis

Survival times of patients can be compared using rank tests in various experimental setups, including the two-sample case and t h e cnse of paired dnta. Attention is focussed on two frequently occurring complications in medical applications: censoring and tail alternatives. A review is given of the author's recent work on a new and simple class of censored rank test:. Various models for tail nlternatives are discussed nnd the relation to censoring is demonstrated.