subtee (version 1.0.1)

get_prca_data: Downloads the prca dataset to use in the package's examples (Internet connection is required).

Description

Fetchs the Advanced prostate cancer data from Patrick Royston and Willi Sauerbrei' book Multivariable Model-building. Thw data comes from from a clinical trial with prostate carcinoma patients described in David P. Byar and Sylvan B. Green (1980).

Usage

get_prca_data()

Value

A data frame with 475 rows and 15 variables: PATNR, AGE, WT, SBP, DBP, SZ, AP, HG, SG, PF, HX, BM, STAGE, EKG, RX, SURVTIME, CENS, X_ST, X_D, X_T, X_T0

References

Ballarini, N. Thomas, M., Rosenkranz, K. and Bornkamp, B. (2021) "subtee: An R Package for Subgroup Treatment Effect Estimation in Clinical Trials" Journal of Statistical Software, 99, 14, 1-17, doi: 10.18637/jss.v099.i14

Royston, P., & Sauerbrei, W. (2008). Multivariable model-building: a pragmatic approach to regression anaylsis based on fractional polynomials for modelling continuous variables (Vol. 777). John Wiley & Sons.

Byar, D. P., & Green, S. B. (1980). The choice of treatment for cancer patients based on covariate information. Bulletin du cancer, 67(4), 477.

See Also

bagged, unadj, modav

Examples

# NOT RUN {
prca = get_prca_data()
head(prca)
# }