A Class of Weighted Log-Rank Tests for Survival Data When the Event is Rare
稀有事件生存数据的一类加权对数秩检验
In many epidemiological and medical follow-up studies, a majority of study subjects do not experience the event of interest during the follow-up period. An important example is the ongoing prostate, lung, colorectal, and ovarian cancer Screening trial of the National Cancer Institute. In such a situation, the widely used Gp family of weighted log-rank statistics essentially reduces to the special case of the (unweighted) log-rank statistics. We propose a simple modification…