KIDNEY {BGPhazard}

Recurrent infection of kidney catheters

Description

Data on the recurrent 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. Only sex was kept as an explanatory variable.

Usage

KIDNEY

Format

A data frame with 38 rows and 6 variables:

id

patient ID

t1,t2

times to infection

delta1,delta2

censorship indicators (1 = exact, 0 = right-censored)

sex

0 = female, 1 = male

Source

https://www.mayo.edu/research/documents/kidneyhtml/doc-10027569