gastric: Survival times of gastric cancer patients

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Survival times of gastric cancer patients

Description

A data set of survival times of patients with locally advanced, nonresectable gastric carcinoma. The patients were either treated with chemotherapy plus radiation or chemotherapy alone.

Usage

gastric

Format

A data frame with 90 rows and 4 variables:

id

patient id

radiation

dummy variable indicating which treatment was employed, 0 = chemotherapy, 1 = combined chemotherapy/radiation

time

time survived by patient in days

status

dummy variable indicating whether death of the patient was observed, 0 = death not observed (i.e. censored), 1 = death observed.

Source

Moreau, T., O'Quigley, J., and Mesbah M. (1985) A global goodness-of-fit statistic for the proportional hazards model Appl. Statist., 34, 212:218 (p 213)

https://www.mayo.edu/research/documents/gastrichtml/DOC-10027680


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