colrec {relsurv}R Documentation

Relative Survival Data

Description

Survival of patients with colon and rectal cancer diagnosed in 1994-2000.

Usage

data(colrec)

Format

A data frame with 5971 observations on the following 7 variables:

sex

sex (1=male, 2=female).

age

age (in days).

diag

date of diagnosis (in date format).

time

survival time (in days).

stat

censoring indicator (0=censoring, 1=death).

stage

cancer stage. Values 1-3, code 99 stands for unknown.

site

cancer site.

References

Provided by Slovene Cancer Registry. The age, time and diag variables are randomly perturbed to make the identification of patients impossible.


[Package relsurv version 2.2-9 Index]