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flexsurv (version 1.1.1)

bc: Breast cancer survival data

Description

Survival times of 686 patients with primary node positive breast cancer.

Usage

bc

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 686 rows.

censrec (numeric) 1=dead, 0=censored
rectime (numeric) Time of death or censoring in days
group (numeric) Prognostic group: "Good","Medium" or "Poor",
from a regression model developed by Sauerbrei and Royston (1999).

References

Royston, P. and Parmar, M. (2002). Flexible parametric proportional-hazards and proportional-odds models for censored survival data, with application to prognostic modelling and estimation of treatment effects. Statistics in Medicine 21(1):2175-2197.

Sauerbrei, W. and Royston, P. (1999). Building multivariable prognostic and diagnostic models: transformation of the predictors using fractional polynomials. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A 162:71-94.

See Also

flexsurvspline