heart2 {p3state.msm}

More Stanford heart transplant data

Description

This contains the Stanford heart transplant data in a different format. The main data set is in (heart). Survival of patients on the waiting list for the Stanford heart transplant program.

Usage

data(heart2)

Format

A data frame with 103 observations on the following 8 variables.

times1

Time of transplant/censoring time.

delta

Transplant indicator.

times2

Time to death since the transplant/censoring time.

time

times1 + times2

status

Censoring indicator: dead=1, alive=0.

age

Age-48 years.

year

Year of acceptance; in years after 1 Nov 1967.

surgery

Prior bypass surgery; 1=yes.

References

Crowley J., Hu M. (1977). Covariance analysis of heart transplant survival data. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 72(357), 27-36. doi:10.2307/2286902