cox.oakes.leukemia: Leukemia remission times

Description Usage Format Source Examples

Description

Data giving time to relapse or continuing remission in patients randomized to a control vs. experimental intervention

Usage

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data("cox.oakes.leukemia")

Format

A data frame with 42 observations on the following 3 variables.

group

Treatment group; 0 = control, 1 = treatment

time

Follow-up time

relapse

relapse indicator; 1 = relapse at the end of follow-up time, 0 = continuing remission

Source

Cox and Oakes, Analysis of Survival Data, 1984.

Examples

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data(cox.oakes.leukemia)
library(survival)
leukemia.remission <- survfit(Surv(time, relapse) ~ group, data = cox.oakes.leukemia)
plot(leukemia.remission, lty = 2:3, mark.time = TRUE)
title("Kaplan-Meier Curves\nfor Cox and Oakes Leukemia Data")

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