larynx: Survival Times of Larynx Cancer Patients
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Survival Times of Larynx Cancer Patients
Description
A study of 90 males with laryngeal cancer was performed, comparing survival
times. Each patient's age, year of diagnosis, and disease stage was noted.
Study published in Kardaun (1983), and available at the website for Klein
and Moeschberger (2003).
Format
A data frame with 90 observations on the following 5 variables.
- stage
Disease stage (1-4) from TNM cancer staging classification.
- time
Time from first treatment until death, or end of study.
- age
Age at diagnosis.
- year
Year of diagnosis.
- death
Indicator of death [1, if patient died at time t; 0, otherwise].
References
Kardaun, O. (1983). Statistical survival analysis of male
larynx-cancer patients-a case study. Statistica Neerlandica,
37, 103–125.
Klein, J. and Moeschberger, M. (2003). Survival analysis: techniques
for censored and truncated data. Springer.
Examples
library(survival)
data(larynx)
Surv(larynx$time, larynx$death)
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Survival Times of Larynx Cancer Patients
Description
A study of 90 males with laryngeal cancer was performed, comparing survival times. Each patient's age, year of diagnosis, and disease stage was noted. Study published in Kardaun (1983), and available at the website for Klein and Moeschberger (2003).
Format
A data frame with 90 observations on the following 5 variables.
- stage
Disease stage (1-4) from TNM cancer staging classification.
- time
Time from first treatment until death, or end of study.
- age
Age at diagnosis.
- year
Year of diagnosis.
- death
Indicator of death [1, if patient died at time t; 0, otherwise].
References
Kardaun, O. (1983). Statistical survival analysis of male larynx-cancer patients-a case study. Statistica Neerlandica, 37, 103–125.
Klein, J. and Moeschberger, M. (2003). Survival analysis: techniques for censored and truncated data. Springer.
Examples
library(survival)
data(larynx)
Surv(larynx$time, larynx$death)
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