Melanoma


  The <code>Melanoma</code> data frame has data on 205 patients in Denmark
  with malignant melanoma.


datasets

Functions and datasets to support Venables and Ripley,
"Modern Applied Statistics with S" (4th edition, 2002).

Brian Ripley

MASS

Support Functions and Datasets for Venables and Ripley's MASS

Melanoma function

This data frame contains the following columns:
  <dl>
    <dt><code>time</code></dt><dd>
      survival time in days, possibly censored.
    </dd> <dt><code>status</code></dt><dd>
      <code>1</code> died from melanoma, <code>2</code> alive, <code>3</code> dead from
      other causes.
    </dd> <dt><code>sex</code></dt><dd>
      <code>1</code> = male, <code>0</code> = female.
    </dd> <dt><code>age</code></dt><dd>
      age in years.
    </dd> <dt><code>year</code></dt><dd>
      of operation.
    </dd> <dt><code>thickness</code></dt><dd>
      tumour thickness in mm.
    </dd> <dt><code>ulcer</code></dt><dd>
      <code>1</code> = presence, <code>0</code> = absence.
    </dd> </dl> 

Format

P. K. Andersen, O. Borgan, R. D. Gill and N. Keiding (1993)
  <em>Statistical Models based on Counting Processes.</em>
  Springer.

Melanoma: Survival from Malignant Melanoma

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