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whas100: Worcester Heart Attack Study WHAS100 Data

Description

Worcester Heart Attack Study WHAS100 Data

Arguments

format

A data frame with 100 rows and 9 columns. All columns are integer, apart from admitdate and foldate which are date, and bmi which is numeric.

source

http://www.mmnt.net/db/0/0/ftp.wiley.com/public/sci_tech_med/survival{Wiley FTP}.

Details

The main goal of this study is to describe factors associated with trends over time in the incidence and survival rates following hospital admission for acute myocardial infarction (MI). Data have been collected during thirteen 1-year periods beginning in 1975 and extending through 2001 on all MI patients admitted to hospitals in the Worcester, Massachusetts Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area. Columns are: [object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

References

Hosmer D, Lemeshow S, May S. Applied Survival Analysis: Regression Modeling of Time to Event Data, 2nd edition. John Wiley and Sons Inc., New York, NY, 2008.