Testing the Hypothesis of Proportional Hazards in Two Populations
两个总体比例风险假设的检验
The assumption of proportional hazards in different populations leads to elegant analysis of survival data as initiated by Cox (1972). However, this model is not appropriate in all situations. In recent literature there have been several instances of crossing hazards, which may be modelled by an increasing hazard ratio. We present a U-statistic test for checking constancy of the hazard ratio against this alternative. The test is suitable for censored data and is found to…