survival (version 3.5-8)

rats: Rat treatment data from Mantel et al

Description

Rat treatment data from Mantel et al. Three rats were chosen from each of 100 litters, one of which was treated with a drug, and then all followed for tumor incidence.

Usage

rats
data(cancer, package="survival")

Arguments

Format

litter:litter number from 1 to 100
rx:treatment,(1=drug, 0=control)
time:time to tumor or last follow-up
status:event status, 1=tumor and 0=censored
sex:male or female

References

E. W. Lee, L. J. Wei, and D. Amato, Cox-type regression analysis for large number of small groups of correlated failure time observations, in "Survival Analysis, State of the Art", Kluwer, 1992.