Comparing Distribution Functions via Empirical Likelihood

IF 1.2 4区数学 International Journal of Biostatistics Pub Date : 2006-01-04 DOI:10.2202/1557-4679.1007

I. McKeague, Yichuan Zhao

引用次数: 40

Abstract

This paper develops empirical likelihood based simultaneous confidence bands for differences and ratios of two distribution functions from independent samples of right-censored survival data. The proposed confidence bands provide a flexible way of comparing treatments in biomedical settings, and bring empirical likelihood methods to bear on important target functions for which only Wald-type confidence bands have been available in the literature. The approach is illustrated with a real data example.

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International Journal of Biostatistics Mathematics-Statistics and Probability

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2.30

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8.30%

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