A DISTRIBUTION–FREE CONFIDENCE INTERVAL FOR THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN QUANTILES WITH CENSORED DATA |
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| Authors: | S. Chakraborti M. M. Desu |
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| Affiliation: | Dept. of Statistics State University of New York at Buffalo 4230 Ridge Lea Road Amherst, NY USA 14226;Dept. of Management Science and Statistics University of Alabama P.O. Box J University, Alabama USA 35486 |
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| Abstract: | Abstract. In the context of a two–sample problem, a confidence interval for the difference of appropriate quantiles of the two survival distributions is described. This method is especially useful when the data include some right–censored observations. A relevant mathematical result is proved. |
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| Keywords: | Confidence interval quantiles distribution–free censored data survival analysis |
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