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mstate (version 0.2.6)

Liver cirrhosis data: Abnormal prothrombin levels in liver cirrhosis

Description

A data frame of 488 liver cirrhosis patients from a randomized clinical trial concerning prednisone treatment in these patients. The dataset is in long format. The included variables are [object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Usage

data(prothr)

Arguments

format

A data frame, see data.frame.

Details

This data was kindly provided by Per Kragh Andersen. It was introduced in Andersen, Borgan, Gill & Keiding (1993), Example 1.3.12, and used as illustration for computation of transition probabilities in multi-state models, see Sections IV.4 (Example IV.4.4) and VII.2 (Example VII.2.10).

References

Andersen PK, Borgan O, Gill RD, Keiding N (1993). Statistical Models Based on Counting Processes. Springer, New York.