Comparing Distribution Functions via Empirical Likelihood

McKeague Ian W. and Zhao Yichuan
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McKeague Ian W.: Columbia University
Zhao Yichuan: Georgia State University

The International Journal of Biostatistics, 2006, vol. 1, issue 1, 20

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.

Keywords: Kaplan--Meier estimator; Nelson--Aalen estimator; plug-in; right censoring (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.2202/1557-4679.1007

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