SCOPE: kstest2 extended to allow censoring

Extends Matlab 2-sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov test to test "censored" survival data

Description

This download should include this code, a randomly generated excel data file for testing purposes, and the example output.
%This program expects to have at least three excel columns 1. follow up time and 2. failure indicator (1=failure has occured and 0=no failure has occurred and 3.predictor (1=present, 0=absent).
A randomly generated excel data file example is included for testing.

Type this at the command line to run: [h,p,k]= xlsSeerComputeSurvivalFuntionKSTest2('survivalPreditorsTestData.xls')

• Required Products: Statistics Toolbox
• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7.14 (R2012a)
• Other requirements: Excel

[Rex Cheung]

Note that the two curves could also be normalized to the max value of each curve before applying the kstest2().