Improved monte carlo estimation of statistical significance for tests of trend in rates proportions

DOI10.1080/00949658708811002MaRDI QIDQ3753363zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Kenneth J. Kopecky, D. L. Preston

Publication date 1987

Published in Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/00949658708811002

zbMATH Keywords

efficiencyimportance samplingp-valuesFortran programlevels of significanceconditional tests for monotone trends in rates or proportionslogrank trend testMonte Carlo (MC) estimation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Probabilistic methods, stochastic differential equations (65C99)

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• A method for constructing exact tests from test statistics that have unknown null distributions
• Chi-Square Tests with One Degree of Freedom; Extensions of the Mantel- Haenszel Procedure
• Small-Sample Properties of Censored-Data Rank Tests
• Tests for trend in life table analysis
• Variance reduction and nonnormality

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• Significance Levels of Randomization Trend Tests in the Event of Rare Occurrences

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