PATIENT: Cancer Survival Times Data

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Cancer Survival Times Data

Description

Survival times of cancer patients with advanced cancer of the stomach, bronchus, colon, ovary or breast, whose treatment included supplemental ascorbate.

Usage

PATIENT

Format

17 obs. of 5 variables:

stomach

survival times for stomach cancer patients

bronchus

survival times for bronchus cancer patients

colon

survival times for colon cancer patients

ovary

survival times for ovary cancer patients

breast

survival times for breast cancer patients

Details

See the text for details on how to input this data directly from the file PATIENT.DAT.

Note

This is the data from "PATIENT.DAT" with column headings added. As input, the data is in wide format and should be stacked (long format) for a one-way ANOVA. See the text for details.

Source

Hand et al. (1994).

References

Cameron and Pauling (1978).

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