In this article, we introduce a general class of statistics for testing the equality of two survival distribution for left-truncated and right-censored data. The class contains as special cases the extension of weighted Kaplan-Meier statistic by Pepe and Fleming (1989). The asymptotic distribution theory of the test is presented. The small-sample performance of the test is investigated under a variety of situations by means of Mone Carlo simulations.
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Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods Volume 36, Issue 16, December 2007, Pages 2913-2925
