drs: Diabetic Retinopathy Data

Description Usage Format Details References Examples

Description

Study begun in 1971 to examine effectiveness of laser therapy vs observation. This dataset has the 197 subjects analyzed in Huster, et al (1989). There is a line for each eye in the dataset, so there are 394 rows.

Usage

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data("drs")

Format

A data frame with 394 observations on the following 5 variables.

id

participant id.

obstime

time to failure, possibly censored

fail

failure indicator, 0 = censored, 1 = fail

age

a factor with levels 20 or younger older than 20

tx

a factor with levels control laser

Details

Data can be used to illustrate correlated survival data

References

Modelling paired survival data with covariates. Huster WJ, Brookmeyer R, Self SG. Biometrics 1989, Vo45, No 1.

Examples

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data(drs)
## maybe str(drs) ; plot(drs) ...

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