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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 4.

Simulation results. Proportions of rejection of three test statistics for left-truncated data without satisfying stationarity assumption based on sample size 100 per group with 5000 simulations

X1 ~ Weibull(2,1), X2Weibull(2,1/β)
β Cen1% Cen2% Prop. of rejection Prop. of rejection Prop. of rejection
Proposed test Truncation logrank Standard Logrank
T1
TLT TLR
A1 ~ Exponential(1/10), A2 ~ Exponential(1/10)
No censoring
1 0% 0% 0.048 0.048 0.049
1.2 0% 0% 0.356 0.233 0.353
1.4 0% 0% 0.820 0.648 0.829
0.8 0% 0% 0.461 0.318 0.452
0.6 0% 0% 0.990 0.941 0.989
Same censoring distributions SC1 = SC2
1 20% 20% 0.050 0.049 0.052
1.2 20% 19% 0.295 0.194 0.291
1.4 20% 17% 0.735 0.521 0.732
0.8 20% 23% 0.419 0.263 0.410
0.6 20% 26% 0.982 0.865 0.983
1 40% 40% 0.051 0.052 0.053
1.2 40% 37% 0.252 0.146 0.237
1.4 40% 34% 0.698 0.454 0.685
0.8 40% 44% 0.366 0.223 0.366
0.6 40% 49% 0.946 0.721 0.937
A1 ~ Uniform(0, 20), A2 ~ Exponential(1/10)
No censoring
1 0% 0% 0.054 0.048 0.056
1.2 0% 0% 0.267 0.242 0.265
1.4 0% 0% 0.763 0.649 0.775
0.8 0% 0% 0.572 0.316 0.567
0.6 0% 0% 0.999 0.928 0.998
Same censoring distributions SC1 = SC2
1 20% 20% 0.055 0.052 0.058
1.2 20% 19% 0.244 0.199 0.242
1.4 20% 17% 0.702 0.568 0.700
0.8 20% 23% 0.504 0.278 0.495
0.6 20% 26% 0.984 0.862 0.979
1 40% 40% 0.056 0.053 0.055
1.2 40% 37% 0.212 0.176 0.220
1.4 40% 34% 0.631 0.460 0.624
0.8 40% 44% 0.422 0.199 0.400
0.6 40% 49% 0.969 0.739 0.959