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Gastric data set
Description
The gastric data frame has 90 rows and variables.It is a data set from a clinical trial conducted by the Gastrointestinal Tumor Study Group (GTSG) in 1982. The data set refers to the survival times of patients with locally nonresectable gastric cancer. Patients were either treated with chemotherapy combined with radiation or chemotherapy alone.
Format
This data frame contains the following columns:
time: survival times in days
trt :treatments (1=chemotherapy + radiation; 0=chemotherapy alone)
status:failure indicator (1=failure, 0=otherwise)
Author(s)
Abdisalam Hassan Muse, Samuel Mwalili, Oscar Ngesa,Christophe Chesneau, abdisalam.hassan@amoud.edu.so
Source
Gastrointestinal Tumor Study Group. (1982) A Comparison of Combination Chemotherapy and Combined Modality Therapy for Locally Advanced Gastric Carcinoma. Cancer 49:1771-7.
Examples
{
data(gastric)
str(gastric);head(gastric)
}