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smcure (version 2.0)

e1684: Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) data

Description

The melanoma data from the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) phase III clinical trial e1684 which is used for modeling semicure PH mixture cure model (Kirkwood, et al., 1996)

Usage

data(e1684)

Arguments

Format

There were 284 patients in this study with the following 5 variables.

TRT

0=control group, 1=IFN treatment group

FAILTIME

observed relapse-free time

FAILCENS

censoring indicator, 1=event of interest happens, and 0=censoring

AGE

continuous variable, which is centered to the mean

SEX

0 for male, 1 for female