
  Veteran's Administration lung cancer trial from Kalbfleisch & Prentice.


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

VA function

A data frame with columns:
  <dl>
    <dt><code>stime</code></dt><dd>
      survival or follow-up time in days.
    </dd> <dt><code>status</code></dt><dd>
      dead or censored.
    </dd> <dt><code>treat</code></dt><dd>
     treatment: standard or test.
   </dd> <dt><code>age</code></dt><dd>
     patient's age in years.
   </dd> <dt><code>Karn</code></dt><dd>
     Karnofsky score of patient's performance on a scale of 0 to 100.
   </dd> <dt><code>diag.time</code></dt><dd>
     times since diagnosis in months at entry to trial.
   </dd> <dt><code>cell</code></dt><dd>
     one of four cell types.
   </dd> <dt><code>prior</code></dt><dd>
     prior therapy?
   </dd> </dl> 

Format

Kalbfleisch, J.D. and Prentice R.L. (1980)
  <em>The Statistical Analysis of Failure Time Data.</em>
  Wiley.

VA: Veteran's Administration Lung Cancer Trial

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