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Survival data from a clinical trial of lung cancer patients conducted by the Veteran's Administration.

Usage

data_lungcancer

Format

A data frame with 137 observations and 8 variables:

trt

Treatment group (1 = standard, 2 = test)

celltype

Cell type (squamous, smallcell, adeno, large)

time

Survival time (in days)

status

Censoring status (1 = died, 0 = censored)

karno

Karnofsky performance score (higher = better)

diagtime

Months from diagnosis to randomization

age

Age in years

prior

Prior therapy (0 = no, 10 = yes)

References

Kalbfleisch JD and Prentice RL (1980). The Statistical Analysis of Failure Time Data.