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gss (version 2.2-8)

DiaRet: Diabetic Retinopathy

Description

Time to blindness of 197 diabetic retinopathy patients who received a laser treatment in one eye.

Usage

data(DiaRet)

Arguments

Format

A data frame containing 197 observations on the following variables.

idPatient ID.
time1Follow-up time of left eye.
time2Follow-up time of right eye.
status1Censoring indicator of left eye.
status2Censoring indicator of right eye.
trt1Treatment indicator of left eye.
trt2Treatment indicator of right eye.
typeType of diabetes.
ageAge of patient at diagnosis.
time.tFollow-up time of treated eye.
time.uFollow-up time of untreated eye.
status.tCensoring indicator of treated eye.
status.uCensoring indicator of untreated eye.

References

Huster, W.J., Brookmeyer, R., and Self, S.G. (1989), Modelling paired survival data with covariates. Biometrics, 45, 145--56.