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