testhare {polspline}

Fake survival data for Hare and Heft

Description

Fake survival analysis data set for testing hare and heft

Usage

testhare

Format

A matrix with 2000 lines (observations) and 8 columns. Column 1 is intended to be the survival time, column 2 the censoring indicator, and columns 3 through 8 are predictors (covariates).

Author(s)

Charles Kooperberg [e-mail].

Source

I started out with a real data set; then I sampled, transformed and added noise. Virtually no number is unchanged.

References

Charles Kooperberg, Charles J. Stone and Young K. Truong (1995). Hazard regression. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 90, 78-94.

Charles J. Stone, Mark Hansen, Charles Kooperberg, and Young K. Truong. The use of polynomial splines and their tensor products in extended linear modeling (with discussion) (1997). Annals of Statistics, 25, 1371–1470.

See Also

hare, heft.

Examples

harefit <- hare(testhare[,1], testhare[,2], testhare[,3:8]) 
heftfit <- heft(testhare[,1], testhare[,2])