The study protocols were approved by the Institutional Review Board at Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan, and adhered to the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki. Written informed consents ...

In this article a control percentile test, a chi-squared test, and a Kolmogorov-type test are proposed for comparing two distributions from incomplete survival data. These tests are obtained by ...

The high incidence of liver disease associated with intravenous soybean lipid has led to development and use of alternative intravenous lipid emulsions (ILEs). The aim of this study was to compare two ...

In this paper, parametric and empirical likelihood functions or surfaces are compared. In particular, first- and second-order expansions for log likelihood functions are developed in nonparametric and ...

Patients with prostate cancer were assessed before or within 21 days of starting ADT (n = 58) and 6 and 12 months later. Age- and education-matched patients with prostate cancer treated with ...