BGPhazard (version 1.2.3)

psych: Death Times of Psychiatric Patients (Woolson)

Description

Woolson (1981) has reported survival data on 26 psychiatric inpatients admitted to the University of Iowa hospitals during the years 1935-1948. This sample is part of a larger study of psychiatric inpatients discussed by Tsuang and Woolson (1977) and it is contained in the KMsurv package.

Usage

data(psych)

Format

A data frame with 26 observations containing:

sex

Patient sex: 1=male, 2=female.

age

Age at first admission to the hospital.

time

Number of years of follow-up.

death

Patient status at the follow-up time: 0=alive, 1=dead.

References

Tsuang, M. T. and Woolson, R. F. (1977). Mortality in Patients with Schizophrenia, Mania and Depression. British Journal of Psychiatry, 130: 162-166.

Woolson, R. F. (1981). Rank Tests and a One-Sample Log Rank Test for Comparing Observed Survival Data to a Standard Population. Biometrics 37: 687-696.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
## Beta Process Example 1
#  data(psych)
#  timesP <- psych$time
#  deltaP <- psych$death
#  BEX1 <- BeMRes(timesP, deltaP, iterations = 3000)
#  BePloth(BEX1, confint = FALSE)
#  BePloth(BEX1, fun = "both", confint = TRUE)
# }