veteran               package:survival               R Documentation

Veterans' Administration Lung Cancer study

Description:

     Randomised trial of two treatment regimens for lung cancer. This
     is a standard survival analysis data set.

Usage:

     veteran

Format:


       trt:       1=standard 2=test
       celltype:  1=squamous,  2=smallcell,  3=adeno,  4=large
       time:      survival time
       status:    censoring status
       karno:     Karnofsky performance score (100=good)
       diagtime:  months from diagnosis to randomisation
       age:       in years
       prior:     prior therapy 0=no, 1=yes

Source:

     D Kalbfleisch and RL Prentice (1980), _The Statistical Analysis of
     Failure Time Data_. Wiley, New York.

