bladder               package:survival               R Documentation

Bladder Cancer Recurrences

Description:

     Data on recurrences of bladder cancer, used by many people to
     demonstrate methodology for recurrent event modelling.

Usage:

     bladder
     bladder2

Format:

     bladder

       id:      Patient id
       rx:      Treatment 1=placebo  2=thiotepa
       number:  Initial number of tumours (8=8 or more)
       size:    size (cm) of largest initial tumour
       stop:    recurrence or censoring time
       enum:    which recurrence (up to 4)

     bladder2 

       id:      Patient id
       rx:      Treatment 1=placebo  2=thiotepa
       number:  Initial number of tumours (8=8 or more)
       size:    size (cm) of largest initial tumour
       start:   start of interval (0 or previous recurrence time)
       stop:    recurrence or censoring time
       enum:    which recurrence (up to 4)

Source:

     LJ Wei, DY Lin, L Weissfeld (1989), Regression analysis of
     multivariate incomplete failure time data by modeling marginal
     distributions. _Journal of the American Statistical Association_,
     *84*.

