melanoma5: Melanoma competing risks data

In timeEL: Time to Event Analysis via Empirical Likelihood Inference

Melanoma competing risks data

Description

These competing risks data relate to survival of patients after operation for malignant melanoma collected at Odense University Hospital between 1962 and 1977. The data are a subsample of the 'melanoma' data of the 'timereg' package (patients who had a tumor thickness of less than 5 cm).

Usage

melanoma5

Format

A data frame with 173 rows and 2 variables:

time

time to event (in years)

status

event status, 1 is death due to malignant melanoma, 2 is death due to another cause and 0 is censored

Source

'timereg' package

References

Andersen PK, Skovgaard LT (2010) Regression with linear predictors. Springer, Berlin

Drzewiecki K, Andersen PK (1982) Survival with malignant melanoma: a regression analysis of prognostic factors. Cancer 49:2414–2419

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