heart: Stanford Heart Transplant data
Description
Survival of patients on the waiting list for the Stanford
heart transplant program.format
jasa: original data
ll{
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
ll{
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.