datCancer {survPen}

Patients diagnosed with cervical cancer

Description

A simulated dataset containing the follow-up times of 2000 patients diagnosed with cervical cancer between 1990 and 2010. End of follow-up is June 30th 2013. The variables are as follows:

• begin. beginning of follow-up. For illustration purposes about left truncation only (0–1)

• fu. follow-up time in years (0–5)

• age. age at diagnosis in years, from 21.39 to 99.33

• yod. decimal year of diagnosis, from 1990.023 to 2010.999

• dead. censoring indicator (1 for dead, 0 for censored)

• rate. expected mortality rate (from overall mortality of the general population) (0–0.38)

Usage

data(datCancer)

Format

A data frame with 2000 rows and 6 variables