A monotonicity property of weighted log-rank tests

2020/08/03 by Coolen-Maturi, Tahani, Coolen, Frank P. A.
#FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Mathematics #Methodology (stat.ME) #Statistics Theory (math.ST)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2008.00848

Abstract

The logrank test is a well-known nonparametric test which is often used to compare the survival distributions of two samples including right censored observations, it is also known as the Mantel-Haenszel test. The G^ρ family of tests, introduced by Harrington and Fleming (1982), generalizes the logrank test by using weights assigned to observations. In this paper, we present a monotonicity property for the G^ρ family of tests, which was motivated by the need to derive bounds for the test statistic in case of imprecise data observations.

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