hodgkins {npsm}

Relapse-Free Survival Times for Hodgkin's Disease Patients

Description

These data are described in Example~11.7 of Hollander and Wolfe (1999). Results from a clinical trial in early Hodgkin's disease. Subjects received one of two treatments: radiation of affected node (AN) or total nodal radiation (TN).

Usage

data("hodgkins")

Format

A data frame with 49 observations on the following 3 variables.

time

Survival time

relapse

Indicator variable for relapse

trt

treatment: a factor with levels AN TN

References

Hollander, M. and Wolfe, D.A. (1999), Nonparametric Statistical Methods, New York: Wiley.