Extended Rank Tests for Analyzing Recurrent Event Data

Wang and Chang studied the bias in the estimation of the marginal survival curve of recurrent event data and came up with an unbiased Kaplan–Meier (KM)-like estimator. However, there were no corresponding hypothesis tests to compare Wang and Chang’s survival estimates among different groups. In this article, we extended three commonly used rank tests to compare Wang and Chang’s KM-like survival estimates. Intra-subject correlation (ISC) issue is...