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survival (version 2.6)

kidney: Kidney data from survival5

Description

Data on the recurrence times to infection, at the point of insertion of the catheter, for kidney patients using portable dialysis equipment. Catheters may be removed for reasons other than infection, in which case the observation is censored. Each patient has exactly 2 observations.

survival5 does not reproduce the original analysis.

Arguments

format

ll{ patient: id time: time status: event status age: in years sex: 1=male, 2=female disease: disease type (0=GN, 1=AN, 2=PKD, 3=Other) frail: frailty estimate from original paper }

source

McGilchrist and Aisbett, Biometrics 47, 461-66, 1991