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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Comparing Distribution Functions via Empirical Likelihood
Ian W. McKeague / Yichuan Zhao
1Columbia University
1Georgia State University
Citation Information: The International Journal of Biostatistics. Volume 1, Issue 1, Pages –, ISSN (Online) 1557-4679, DOI: 10.2202/1557-4679.1007, January 2006
Publication History:
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- 2006-01-04
Keywords: Kaplan--Meier estimator; Nelson--Aalen estimator; plug-in; right censoring
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