get_prca_data: Downloads the prca dataset to use in the package's examples...

View source: R/get_prca_data.R

get_prca_dataR Documentation

Downloads the prca dataset to use in the package's examples (Internet connection is required).

Description

Fetchs the Advanced prostate cancer data from Patrick Royston and Willi Sauerbrei' book Multivariable Model-building. Thw data comes from from a clinical trial with prostate carcinoma patients described in David P. Byar and Sylvan B. Green (1980).

Usage

get_prca_data()

Value

A data frame with 475 rows and 15 variables: PATNR, AGE, WT, SBP, DBP, SZ, AP, HG, SG, PF, HX, BM, STAGE, EKG, RX, SURVTIME, CENS, X_ST, X_D, X_T, X_T0

References

Ballarini, N. Thomas, M., Rosenkranz, K. and Bornkamp, B. (2021) "subtee: An R Package for Subgroup Treatment Effect Estimation in Clinical Trials" Journal of Statistical Software, 99, 14, 1-17, doi: 10.18637/jss.v099.i14

Royston, P., & Sauerbrei, W. (2008). Multivariable model-building: a pragmatic approach to regression anaylsis based on fractional polynomials for modelling continuous variables (Vol. 777). John Wiley & Sons.

Byar, D. P., & Green, S. B. (1980). The choice of treatment for cancer patients based on covariate information. Bulletin du cancer, 67(4), 477.

See Also

bagged, unadj, modav

Examples

prca = get_prca_data()
head(prca)

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