veteran {cosso}R Documentation

Veterans' Administration Lung Cancer study

Description

Randomized trial of two treatment regimens for lung cancer.

Usage

data(veteran)

Format

time survival time
status censoring status
trt 0=standard 1=test
celltype 1=squamous, 2=smallcell, 3=adeno, 4=large.
karno Karnofsky performance score. minimum 10 and maximum 99 in original scale.
diagtime months from diagnosis to randomization. minimum 1 and maximum 87 in original scale.
age in years. minimum 34 and maximum 81 in original scale.
prior prior therapy 0=no, 1=yes.

Details

All the variables, except for the response, have been scaled to [0,1] interval. To transform back to the original scale, use the formula:

x=min+(max-min)*z.

Source

Kalbfleisch, J. and Prentice, R.L. (2002), The Statistical Analysis of Failure Time Data (Second Edition) Wiley: New Jersey.


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