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nwtsco: Dataset from the National Wilms Tumor Study (NWTS)

Description

Dataset from the National Wilms Tumor Study (NWTS)

Usage

nwtsco

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 3915 rows and 12 variables:
trel
Time to relapse orlast date seen (yr), continuous
tsur
Time to death or last date seen (yr), continuous
relaps
Indicator of relapse, 0 = Alive no prior relapse when last seen, 1 = Relapsed after trel years
dead
Indicator of death, 0 = Alive when last seen, 1 = Died after tsur years
study
NWTS study, 3 = NWTS-3, 4 = NWTS-4
stage
Stage of disease, 1=I, 2=II, 3=III, 4=IV
histol
Central Path histology, 0 = Favorable (FH), 1 = Unfavorable (UH)
instit
Institutional histology, 0 = Favorable (FH), 1 = Unfavorable (UH)
age
Age at diagnosis (yr), continuous
yr
Year of diagnosis, calendar year
specwgt
Weight of tumor bearing specimen, in grams (continuous)
tumdiam
Diameter of tumor, in centimeters (continuous)

Source

http://faculty.washington.edu/norm/datasets/nwts-share.txt Originally used by M. Kulich and D.Y. Lin: Improving the efficiency of relative-risk estimation in case-cohort studies. J Amer Statis Assoc 99:832-844, 2004.