Quantile Comparison Functions in Two-Sample Problems, With Application to Comparisons of Diagnostic Markers

DOI10.2307/2291664zbMath0868.62040MaRDI QIDQ3129049

Martin T. Wells, Ram C. Tiwari, Gang Li

Publication date: 12 June 1997

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2291664

zbMATH Keywords

bootstrap; Monte Carlo simulation; random censorship; truncated data; chi-squared test; receiver operating characteristic curve; Kolmogorov-type test; random truncation models; comparing distributions; control percentile test; horizontal shift function; incomplete survival data; Mayo Clinic ovarian carcinoma data; vertical shift comparison function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62G10: Nonparametric hypothesis testing

62E20: Asymptotic distribution theory in statistics

62P10: Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis

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