VA_df: Veteran's Administration Lung Cancer Trial
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Veteran's Administration Lung Cancer Trial
Description
The dataset name has been changed to 'VA_df' to avoid confusion with other datasets from packages in the R ecosystem and to follow the naming conventions of the 'MedDataSets' package. The suffix '_df' indicates that this dataset is a data frame, helping to distinguish it from other datasets within the package and from those in the broader R ecosystem. The original content of the dataset has not been modified in any way.
Usage
data(VA_df)
Format
A data frame with 137 observations and 8 variables:
- stime
A numeric value representing the survival time (in days).
- status
A numeric value indicating the status of the patient (1 if the patient died, 0 otherwise).
- treat
A factor indicating the treatment group (e.g., treatment A or B).
- age
A numeric value representing the age of the patient (in years).
- Karn
A numeric value representing the Karnofsky performance status score.
- diag.time
A numeric value indicating the time since diagnosis (in days).
- cell
A factor indicating the cell type of the lung cancer (with 4 possible levels).
- prior
A factor indicating prior treatment (yes/no).
Details
This dataset contains data from the Veteran's Administration Lung Cancer Trial, which includes information on patients diagnosed with lung cancer, their treatment, and other relevant variables.
Source
Data collected from the Veteran's Administration Lung Cancer Trial.
