A General Class of Test Procedures for Left-Truncated and Right-Censored Data
Pao‐Sheng Shen · Communication in Statistics- Theory and Methods · 2007
In this article, we introduce a general class of statistics for testing the equality of two survival distribution for left-truncated and right-censored data. The class contains as special cases the extension of weighted Kaplan–Meier statistic by Pepe and Fleming (1989 Pepe , M. S. , Fleming , T. R. ( 1989 ). Weighted Kaplan–Meier statistics: a class of distance tests for censored data . Biometrics 45 : 497 – 507 .[Crossref], [PubMed], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]). The asymptotic distribution theory of the test is presented. The small-sample performance of the test is investigated under a variety of situations by means of Mone Carlo simulations.