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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1985-3-19
pubmed:abstractText
The small-sample performance of some recently proposed nonparametric methods of constructing confidence intervals for the median survival time, based on randomly right-censored data, is compared with that of two new methods. Most of these methods are equivalent for large samples. All proposed intervals are either 'test-based' or 'reflected' intervals, in the sense defined in the paper. Coverage probabilities for the interval estimates were obtained by exact calculation for uncensored data, and by stimulation for three life distributions and four censoring patterns. In the range of situations studied, 'test-based' methods often have less than nominal coverage, while the coverage of the new 'reflected' confidence intervals is closer to nominal (although somewhat conservative), and these intervals are easy to compute.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0006-341X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
40
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
587-600
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1984
pubmed:articleTitle
A comparison of reflected versus test-based confidence intervals for the median survival time, based on censored data.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Clinical Trial, Comparative Study