cosmesis: Breast cosmesis data

In mable: Maximum Approximate Bernstein/Beta Likelihood Estimation

Breast cosmesis data

Description

Data contain the interval-censored times to cosmetic deterioration for breast cancer patients undergoing radiation or radiation plus chemotherapy.

Usage

data(cosmesis)

Format

A data frame with 94 observations on the following 3 variables.

• left left endpoint of the censoring interval in months

• right right endpoint of the censoring interval in months

• treat a factor with levels RT and RCT representing radiotherapy-only and radiation plus chemotherapy treatments, respectively

Source

Finkelstein, D. M. and Wolfe, R. A. (1985) A semiparametric model for regression analysis of interval-censored failure time data. Biometrics 41, 933–945.

References

Finkelstein, D. M. (1986) A proportional hazards model for interval-censored failure time data. Biometrics 42, 845–854.

Examples

data(cosmesis)

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