These data sets give the times (in years) from HIV infection to AIDS, SI switch and death in 329 men who have sex with men (MSM). Data are from the period until combination anti-retroviral therapy became available (1996). For more background information on the cohort, ccr5 and SI, see Geskus et al. (2000, 2003)
aidssi
| patnr: | Patient identification number |
| time: | Time from HIV infection to first of SI appearance and AIDS, or last follow-up |
| status: | Event indicator; 0 = censored, 1 = AIDS, 2 = SI appearance |
| cause: | Failure cause; factor with levels "event-free", "AIDS", "SI" |
| ccr5: | CCR5 genotype; factor with levels "WW" (wild type allele on both chromosomes), |
| "WM" (mutant allele on one chromosome) |
aidssi2
| patnr: | Patient identification number |
| entry.time: | Time from HIV infection to cohort entry. Value is zero if HIV infection occurred while in follow-up. |
| aids.time: | Time from HIV infection to AIDS, or last follow-up if AIDS was not observed |
| aids.stat: | Event indicator with respect to AIDS, with values 0 (censored) and 1 (AIDS) |
| si.time: | Time from HIV infection to SI switch, or last follow-up if SI switch was not observed |
| si.stat: | Event indicator with respect to SI switch, with values 0 (no switch) and 1 (switch) |
| death.time: | Time from HIV infection to death, or last follow-up if death was not observed |
| death.stat: | Event indicator with respect to death; 0 = alive, 1 = dead |
| age.inf: | Age at HIV infection |
| ccr5: | CCR5 genotype; factor with levels "WW" (wild type allele on both chromosomes), |
| "WM" (mutant allele on one chromosome) |
aidssi contains follow-up data until the first of AIDS and SI switch.
It was used as example for the competing risks analyses in Putter, Fiocco,
Geskus (2007) and in Geskus (2016).
aidssi2 extends the aidssi data set in three ways. First, it
considers events after the initial one. Second, it includes the entry times
of the individuals that entered the study after HIV infection. Third, age at
HIV infection has been added as extra covariable. Numbers differ slightly
from the aidssi data set. Some individuals were diagnosed with AIDS
only when they died and others had their last follow-up at AIDS diagnosis.
In order to prevent two transitions to happen at the same time, their time
to AIDS was shortened by 0.25 years. This data set was used as example for
the multi-state analyses in Geskus (2016).
Geskus, Ronald B. (2016). Data Analysis with Competing Risks and Intermediate States. CRC Press, Boca Raton.
Putter H, Fiocco M, Geskus RB (2007). Tutorial in biostatistics: Competing risks and multi-state models. Statistics in Medicine 26, 2389--2430.