The two-sample problem for failure rates depending on a continuous mark: An application to vaccine efficacy
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mark: An application to vaccine efficacy PETER B. GILBERT∗ Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Avenue North, Seattle, Washington 98109, USA [email protected] IAN W. McKEAGUE Department of Biostatistics, Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health, 722 West 168th Street, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10032 [email protected] YANQING SUN Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 9201 University City Boulevard, Charlotte, North Carolina 28223, USA [email protected]
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