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Published in final edited form as: J R Stat Soc Series B Stat Methodol. 2010 Nov 1;72(5):609–630. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9868.2010.00742.x

Table 3.

Simulation results. Proportions of rejection of three test statistics for length-biased data based on n1 = 50 and n2 = 150 and with 5000 simulations

X1 ~ Weibull(2,1), X2Weibull(2,1/β)
β Cen1% Cen2% Proposed test Prop. of rejection Prop. of rejection
Prop. of rejection Truncation logrank Standard Logrank
T1
TLT TLR
No censoring
1 0% 0% 0.049 0.051 0.048
1.2 0% 0% 0.317 0.205 0.274
1.4 0% 0% 0.749 0.528 0.709
0.8 0% 0% 0.345 0.262 0.391
0.6 0% 0% 0.963 0.870 0.975
Same censoring distributions SC1 = SC2
1 20% 20% 0.052 0.051 0.051
1.2 20% 18% 0.254 0.150 0.205
1.4 20% 17% 0.659 0.423 0.608
0.8 20% 23% 0.288 0.220 0.327
0.6 20% 26% 0.936 0.778 0.947
1 40% 40% 0.051 0.052 0.051
1.2 40% 36% 0.263 0.124 0.215
1.4 40% 34% 0.591 0.330 0.518
0.8 40% 43% 0.307 0.200 0.333
0.6 40% 48% 0.889 0.681 0.887
Different censoring distributions SC1SC2
1 20% 6% 0.049 (0.053) 0.051 0.056
1.2 20% 5% 0.282 (0.296) 0.164 0.297
1.4 20% 5% 0.674 (0.694) 0.450 0.700
0.8 20% 6% 0.269 (0.283) 0.230 0.258
0.6 20% 7% 0.910 (0.930) 0.779 0.909
1 40% 10% 0.047 (0.052) 0.049 0.084
1.2 40% 9% 0.259 (0.275) 0.143 0.389
1.4 40% 9% 0.642 (0.663) 0.381 0.761
0.8 40% 12% 0.210 (0.250) 0.202 0.151
0.6 40% 13% 0.843 (0.854) 0.696 0.768