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aml: Remission Times for Acute Myelogenous Leukaemia

Description

The aml data frame has 23 rows and 3 columns.

A clinical trial to evaluate the efficacy of maintenance chemotherapy for acute myelogenous leukaemia was conducted by Embury et al. (1977) at Stanford University. After reaching a stage of remission through treatment by chemotherapy, patients were randomized into two groups. The first group received maintenance chemotherapy and the second group did not. The aim of the study was to see if maintenance chemotherapy increased the length of the remission. The data here formed a preliminary analysis which was conducted in October 1974.

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The data were obtained from

Miller, R.G. (1981) Survival Analysis. John Wiley.

References

Davison, A.C. and Hinkley, D.V. (1997) Bootstrap Methods and Their Application. Cambridge University Press.

Embury, S.H, Elias, L., Heller, P.H., Hood, C.E., Greenberg, P.L. and Schrier, S.L. (1977) Remission maintenance therapy in acute myelogenous leukaemia. Western Journal of Medicine, 126, 267-272.