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A Chi-Squared Test for the Generalized Power Weibull Family for the Head-and-Neck Cancer Censored Data

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We propose a chi-squared type statistic to test the validity of the generalized power Weibull family based on the Head-and-Neck cancer censored data. Bibliography: 18 titles.

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Published in Zapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov POMI, Vol. 311, 2004, pp. 222–236.

An erratum to this article is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10958-007-0132-3.

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Nikulin, M., Haghighi, F. A Chi-Squared Test for the Generalized Power Weibull Family for the Head-and-Neck Cancer Censored Data. J Math Sci 133, 1333–1341 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10958-006-0043-8

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