Comparing survival curves based on medians
Abstract Background Although some nonparametric methods have been proposed in the literature to test for the equality of median survival times for censored data in medical research, in general they have inflated type I error rates, which make their use limited in practice, especially when the sample...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2016-03-01
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Series: | BMC Medical Research Methodology |
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Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12874-016-0133-3 |