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In this study there were 21 pairs of subjects, and within each pair one subject received 6-mercaptopurine (6-MP) and one got placebo. The data are right censored.
See also Gehan (1965) who used the data ignoring the pairing so that he could illustrate his famous two-sample (non-paired) rank test.
data(leuk2)
A data frame with 42 observations on the following variables.
time
time in remission (in weeks)
status
event status, 1 is relapse, 0 is censored
treatment
treatment group: either 'placebo' or '6-MP'
pair
pair id number
Gehan (1965) Biometrika 52:203-223.
Freireich et al (1963) Blood 21(6):699-716.
leuk
is only the treated group
data(leuk2)
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