survival (version 2.11-4)

bladder: Bladder Cancer Recurrences

Description

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

Usage

data(bladder)

format

bladder ll{ 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 ll{ 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

Wei, Lin, Weisfeld, JASA 1989