gastric: gastric cancer trial data
Description
gastric cancer trial dataformat
A data.frame with $90$ rows (observations) and $3$ columns (variables).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, 1982.
A comparison of combination chemotherapy and
combined modality therapy for locally advanced gastric carcinoma.
Cancer. 49(9):1771-7. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6176313{Pubmed}.Stablein DM, Koutrouvelis IA, 1985.
A two-sample test sensitive to crossing hazards in uncensored and singly censored data.
Biometrics. 41(3):643-52.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/2531284{JSTOR}.