主講人：張馨文博士(中央研究院統計研究所助研究員)
題 目：Nonparametric Testing for Multiple Survival Functions with Non-Inferiority Margins
時 間：民國107年5月14日 (星期一) 下午1：30
地 點：國立政治大學逸仙樓050101教室
摘 要：
New nonparametric tests for the ordering of multiple survival functions are developed with the possibility of right censorship taken into account. The motivation comes from non-inferiority trials with multiple treatments. The proposed tests are based on nonparametric likelihood ratio statistics, which are known to provide more powerful tests than Wald-type procedures, but in this setting have only been studied for pairs of survival functions or in the absence of censoring. We introduce a novel type of pool adjacent violator algorithm that leads to a complete solution of the problem. The limit distributions can be expressed as weighted sums of squares involving projections of certain Gaussian processes onto the given ordered alternative. A simulation study shows that the new procedures have superior power to a competing combined-pairwise Cox model approach. We illustrate the proposed methods using data from a three-arm non-inferiority trial.
This is joint work with Dr. Ian W. McKeague.
