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cgd: Chronic Granulomatous Disease data

Description

Dataset from Fleming and Harrington (1991).

Data from a multicenter placebo-controlled randomized trial of gamma inferon in patients with chronic granulomatous disease (CGD). 128 patients were randomized to either gamma inferon ($n=63$) or placebo ($n=65$). For each patient the times from study entry to initial and any recurrent serious infections are available. There is a minimum of one and a maximum of eight (recurrent) infection times per patient, with a total of 203 records.

Usage

data(cgd)

Arguments

source

Appendix D.2 of Fleming and Harrington (1991).

References

Fleming, T. R. and Harrington, D. P. (1991). Counting Processes and Survival Analysis. New York: John Wiley and Sons.