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SUBMITTER: Johnson BA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6040226 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scandinavian journal of statistics, theory and applications 20170216 2
Occasionally, investigators collect auxiliary marks at the time of failure in a clinical study. Because the failure event may be censored at the end of the follow-up period, these marked endpoints are subject to induced censoring. We propose two new families of two-sample tests for the null hypothesis of no difference in mark-scale distribution that allows for arbitrary associations between mark and time. One family of proposed tests is a nonparametric extension of an existing semi-parametric li ...[more]