The Annals of Statistics, Vol. 27, No. 5 (Oct., 1999), pp. 1722-1744 (23 pages) Many of the popular nonparametric test statistics for censored survival data used in two-sample, k-sample trend and ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In this paper Pitman's method of constructing and comparing tests based on statistics which are asymptotically normal under the null ...

Nonparametric methods form an important core of statistical techniques and are typically used when data do not meet parametric assumptions. Understanding the foundation of these methods, as well as ...