Tests and Confidence Sets for Comparing Two Mean Residual Life Functions

DOI10.2307/2531899MaRDI QIDQ3489255zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors R. Berger, Dennis D. Boos, Frank M. Guess

Publication date 1988

Published in Biometrics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://semanticscholar.org/paper/82139100ad7772ca67e0d5489ec1fab663dbd2c7

zbMATH Keywords

nonparametric testnonparametric confidence setsmean residual life functionintersection-union principlemedian residual life functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric hypothesis testing (62G10) Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Nonparametric tolerance and confidence regions (62G15)

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