Melanoma:
Survival from Malignant Melanoma
Description
The Melanoma
data frame has data on 205 patients in Denmark
with malignant melanoma.
Format
This data frame contains the following columns:
time
-
survival time in days, possibly censored.
status
-
1
died from melanoma, 2
alive, 3
dead from
other causes.
sex
-
1
= male, 0
= female.
age
-
age in years.
year
-
of operation.
thickness
-
tumour thickness in mm.
ulcer
-
1
= presence, 0
= absence.
Source
P. K. Andersen, O. Borgan, R. D. Gill and N. Keiding (1993)
Statistical Models based on Counting Processes.
Springer.