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survMisc (version 0.4.2)

gastric: gastric cancer trial data

Description

gastric cancer trial data

Arguments

format

A data frame with 90 rows and 3 columns

source

Klein J, Moeschberger. Survival Analysis, 2nd edition. Springer 2003. Example 7.9, pg 224.

Details

Data from a trial of locally unresectable gastic cancer. Patients (45 in each group) were randomized to one of two groups: chemotheapy vs chemotherapy + radiotherapy. Columns are: [object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

References

Gastrointestinal Tumor Study Group. A comparison of combination chemotherapy and combined modality therapy for locally advanced gastric carcinoma. Cancer. 1982 May 1;49(9):1771-7. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6176313{Pubmed}. Stablein DM, Koutrouvelis IA. A two-sample test sensitive to crossing hazards in uncensored and singly censored data. Biometrics. 1985 Sep;41(3):643-52. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2531284{JSTOR}.