melanoma {biostat3}

Melanoma cancer dataset

Description

Melanoma cancer dataset

Usage

data("melanoma")

Format

A data frame with 7775 observations on the following 18 variables.

sex

a factor with levels Male Female

age

a numeric vector

stage

a factor with levels Unknown Localised Regional Distant

mmdx

a numeric vector

yydx

a numeric vector

surv_mm

a numeric vector

surv_yy

a numeric vector

status

a factor with levels Alive Dead: cancer Dead: other Lost to follow-up

subsite

a factor with levels Head and Neck Trunk Limbs Multiple and NOS

year8594

a factor with levels Diagnosed 75-84 Diagnosed 85-94

dx

a Date

exit

a Date

agegrp

a factor with levels 0-44 45-59 60-74 75+

id

a numeric vector

ydx

a numeric vector for continuous year of diagnosis

yexit

a numeric vector for continuous year of exit

Examples

data(melanoma)
## maybe str(melanoma) ; plot(melanoma) ...