kidney {MMAD}

Kidney Infection Data

Description

The data consisted of the time to first and second infection relapse in 38 kidney disease patients using a portable dialysis machine. Infection may occur where the catheter was inserted. Catheters are subsequently removed if infection develops and may be removed for other reasons, in which case observations are censored.

Usage

kidney

Format

An object of class data.frame with 76 rows and 7 columns.

Value

Kidney infection data contains the following fields:

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

References

McGilchrist C.A. and Aisbett C.W.(1991). "Regression with frailty in survival analysis." Biometrics 47, 461-466.

Examples

data = data(Kidney)