Datasets: Datasets

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Datasets

Description

The datasets are based on the official .zip file. A table for the dataset names and file names sorted by file name is here:

Dataset name File name
-------------------- -----------------
illustration "A numerical illustration.dat"
leukaemia "Bone marrow transplantation in the treatment of leukaemia.dat"
bone_marrow "Bone marrow transplantation.dat"
ovarian "Chemotherapy in ovarian cancer patients.dat"
active_hepatitis "Chronic active hepatitis.dat"
granulomatous "Chronic granulomatous disease.dat"
tamoxifen "Clinical trial of tamoxifen in breast cancer patients.dat"
prostatic "Comparison of two treatments for prostatic cancer.dat"
kidneytx "Comparisons between kidney transplant centres.dat"
liverbase "Data from a cirrhosis study (baseline).dat"
liver_counting "Data from a cirrhosis study (in counting process format).dat"
lbrdata0 "Data from a cirrhosis study (lbr data).dat"
HELP "Health evaluation and linkage to primary care.dat"
dialysis "Infection in patients on dialysis.dat"
bone_marrow_tx "Patient outcome following bone marrow transplantation.dat"
bcancer "Prognosis for women with breast cancer.dat"
pulmonary "Pulmonary metastasis.dat"
breast_rfs "Recurrence free survival in breast cancer patients.dat"
ulcer "Recurrence of an ulcer.dat"
bladder "Recurrence of bladder cancer.dat"
mammary "Recurrence of mammary tumours in female rats.dat"
valve "Survival following aortic valve replacement.dat"
tplant "Survival following kidney transplantation.dat"
ducks "Survival of black ducks.dat"
mice "Survival of laboratory mice.dat"
liver "Survival of liver transplant recipients.dat"
myeloma "Survival of multiple myeloma patients.dat"
lung "Survival of patients registered for a lung transplant.dat"
gcancer "Survival of patients with gastric cancer.dat"
melanoma "Survival times of patients with melanoma .dat"
livertx "Time to death while waiting for a liver transplant.dat"
IUD "Time to discontinuation of the use of an IUD.dat"
kidney "Treatment of hypernephroma.dat"

And now sorted by the dataset names:

Dataset name File name
-------------------- -----------------
active_hepatitis "Chronic active hepatitis.dat"
bcancer "Prognosis for women with breast cancer.dat"
bladder "Recurrence of bladder cancer.dat"
bone_marrow "Bone marrow transplantation.dat"
bone_marrow_tx "Patient outcome following bone marrow transplantation.dat"
breast_rfs "Recurrence free survival in breast cancer patients.dat"
dialysis "Infection in patients on dialysis.dat"
ducks "Survival of black ducks.dat"
gcancer "Survival of patients with gastric cancer.dat"
granulomatous "Chronic granulomatous disease.dat"
HELP "Health evaluation and linkage to primary care.dat"
illustration "A numerical illustration.dat"
IUD "Time to discontinuation of the use of an IUD.dat"
kidney "Treatment of hypernephroma.dat"
kidneytx "Comparisons between kidney transplant centres.dat"
lbrdata0 "Data from a cirrhosis study (lbr data).dat"
leukaemia "Bone marrow transplantation in the treatment of leukaemia.dat"
liver "Survival of liver transplant recipients.dat"
liver_counting "Data from a cirrhosis study (in counting process format).dat"
liverbase "Data from a cirrhosis study (baseline).dat"
livertx "Time to death while waiting for a liver transplant.dat"
lung "Survival of patients registered for a lung transplant.dat"
mammary "Recurrence of mammary tumours in female rats.dat"
melanoma "Survival times of patients with melanoma .dat"
mice "Survival of laboratory mice.dat"
myeloma "Survival of multiple myeloma patients.dat"
ovarian "Chemotherapy in ovarian cancer patients.dat"
prostatic "Comparison of two treatments for prostatic cancer.dat"
pulmonary "Pulmonary metastasis.dat"
tamoxifen "Clinical trial of tamoxifen in breast cancer patients.dat"
tplant "Survival following kidney transplantation.dat"
ulcer "Recurrence of an ulcer.dat"
valve "Survival following aortic valve replacement.dat"

As an alternative to using the R datasets, the collett_data function allows for reading from the original .dat files that are stored in the package.

Usage

collett_data(name)

Arguments

name

Character string with the original filename

Value

A data-frame

Author(s)

Maintainer: Mark Clements mark.clements@ki.se (ORCID)

Source

https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/s3-euw1-ap-pe-ws4-cws-documents.ri-prod/9781032252858/Data%20sets%20from%20Modelling%20Survival%20Data%20in%20Medical%20Research%2C%204th%20edition.zip

See Also

Useful links:

Examples

head(collett_data("A numerical illustration.dat"))
## which is equivalent to: head(illustration)

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