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Gastric Cancer Data.
Description
Survival data from a trial comparing chemotherapy versus combined chemotherapy plus radiotherapy in the treatment of gastric cancer.
Usage
data(gastric)
Format
A data frame with 90 observations (45 in each treatment group) with the following 3 columns:
- time
the observed follow-up times in days.
- status
the event indicators, 0=right censored, 1= event.
- group
the group labels, 1 = chemotherapy, 2 = chemotherapy plus radiotherapy.
Source
Stablein, D. M. and Koutrouvelis, I. A. (1985) A two-sample test sensitive to crossing hazards in uncensored and singly censored data. Biometrics 41, 643–652. (Page 649).
References
Gastrointestinal Tumor Study Group: Schein, P. D., Stablein, D. M., Bruckner, H. W., Douglass, H. O., Mayer, R., et al. (1982). A comparison of combination chemotherapy and combined modality therapy for locally advanced gastricarcinoma. Cancer 49, 1771-1777.