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Abnormal prothrombin levels in liver cirrhosis
Description
A data frame of 488 liver cirrhosis patients from a randomized clinical trial concerning prednisone treatment in these patients. The dataset is in long format. The included variables are
- id
Patient identification number
- from
Starting state
- to
Receiving state
- trans
Transition number
- Tstart
Starting time
- Tstop
Transition time
- status
Status variable; 1=transition, 0=censored
- treat
Treatment; factor with levels "Placebo", "Prednisone"
Format
A data frame, see data.frame.
Details
This data was kindly provided by Per Kragh Andersen. It was introduced in Andersen, Borgan, Gill & Keiding (1993), Example 1.3.12, and used as illustration for computation of transition probabilities in multi-state models, see Sections IV.4 (Example IV.4.4) and VII.2 (Example VII.2.10).
References
Andersen PK, Borgan O, Gill RD, Keiding N (1993). Statistical Models Based on Counting Processes. Springer, New York.