mgus2 {eventglm}

Monoclonal gammopathy data

Description

Natural history of 1341 sequential patients with monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS). This is a superset of the mgus data, at a later point in the accrual process. This dataset is redistributed from the survival package with an added competing risks event indicator.

Usage

mgus2

Format

A data frame with 1384 observations on the following 10 variables.

id

subject identifier

age

age at diagnosis, in years

sex

a factor with levels F M

dxyr

year of diagnosis

hgb

hemoglobin

creat

creatinine

mspike

size of the monoclonal serum spike

ptime

time until progression to a plasma cell malignancy (PCM) or last contact, in months

pstat

occurrence of PCM: 0=no, 1=yes

futime

time until death or last contact, in months

death

occurrence of death: 0=no, 1=yes

etime

time until either death, pcm, or last contact

event

factor indicating which event occurred first

See Also

mgus2