liversurv {joineR}R Documentation

Liver Cirrhosis survival data

Description

This dataset gives the survival times (in years) for patients from a controlled trial into prednisone treatment of liver cirrhosis. Also included is the necessary survival design matrix for the model as analysed in Henderson, Diggle and Dobson (2002). This dataset is to be used in conjunction with 'liverlong'.

Usage

data(liversurv)

Format

A data frame with survival times and design matrix for 75 subjects. Column format is subject id, survival time, censoring indicator and a solitary binary treatment covariate which constitutes the survival design matrix.

Source

Andersen, P. K., Borgan O., Gill, R. D. and Kieding, N. (1993). Statistical Models Based on Counting Processes. New York: Springer.

References

Andersen, P. K., Borgan O., Gill, R. D. and Kieding, N. (1993). Statistical Models Based on Counting Processes. New York: Springer.

Henderson, R., Diggle, P. and Dobson, A. (2002). Identification and efficacy of longitudinal markers for survival. Biostatistics 3, 33-50.

See Also

'liverlong'.

Examples

data(liversurv)

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