veteran: Veterans' Administration Lung Cancer study
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veteran R Documentation
Veterans' Administration Lung Cancer study
Description
Randomised trial of two treatment regimens for lung cancer.
This is a standard survival analysis data set.
Usage
veteran
Format
trt: 1=standard 2=test
celltype: 1=squamous, 2=smallcell, 3=adeno, 4=large
time: survival time
status: censoring status
karno: Karnofsky performance score (100=good)
diagtime: months from diagnosis to randomisation
age: in years
prior: prior therapy 0=no, 10=yes
Note
The usage above assumes that the survival package is attached via
library(survival) or via another package that depends on
survival, e.g., mstate. If not, then either survival::veteran
can be used or data(cancer, package="survival").
Source
D Kalbfleisch and RL Prentice (1980),
The Statistical Analysis of Failure Time Data.
Wiley, New York.
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Veterans' Administration Lung Cancer study
Description
Randomised trial of two treatment regimens for lung cancer. This is a standard survival analysis data set.
Usage
veteran
Format
| trt: | 1=standard 2=test |
| celltype: | 1=squamous, 2=smallcell, 3=adeno, 4=large |
| time: | survival time |
| status: | censoring status |
| karno: | Karnofsky performance score (100=good) |
| diagtime: | months from diagnosis to randomisation |
| age: | in years |
| prior: | prior therapy 0=no, 10=yes |
Note
The usage above assumes that the survival package is attached via
library(survival) or via another package that depends on
survival, e.g., mstate. If not, then either survival::veteran
can be used or data(cancer, package="survival").
Source
D Kalbfleisch and RL Prentice (1980), The Statistical Analysis of Failure Time Data. Wiley, New York.
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