On Combination of Several Weighted Logrank Tests

  • Published : 1995.12.01

Abstract

We consider a class of the weighted logrank tests and 4 types of weights in this class. We propese a test based on the maximum of 4 weighted logrank statistics and suggest a simulation techniqur to obtain the p-value of proposed test. It is shown through the simulation studies that the proposed test is robust and has reasonably good powers comparing with the well known efficient tests.

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