heart                package:survival                R Documentation

Stanford Heart Transplant data

Description:

     Survival of patients on the waiting list for the Stanford heart
     transplant program.

Usage:

     heart
     jasa
     jasa1

Format:

     jasa: original data

       birth.dt:    birth date
       accept.dt:   acceptance into program
       tx.date:     transplant date
       fu.date:     end of followup
       fustat:      dead or alive
       surgery:     prior bypass surgery
       age:         age (in days)
       futime:      followup time
       wait.time:   time before transplant
       transplant:  transplant indicator
       mismatch:    mismatch score
       hla.a2:      particular type of mismatch
       mscore:      another mismatch score
       reject:      rejection occurred

     jasa1, heart: processed data

       start, stop, event:  Entry and exit time and status for this interval of time
       age:                 age-48 years
       year:                year of acceptance (in years after 1 Nov 1967)
       surgery:             prior bypass surgery 1=yes
       transplant:          received transplant 1=yes
       id:                  patient id

Source:

     J Crowley and M Hu (1977), Covariance analysis of heart transplant
     survival data. _Journal of the American Statistical Association_,
     *72*, 27-36.

See Also:

     'stanford2'

