veteran

Randomised trial of two treatment regimens for lung cancer.
  This is a standard survival analysis data set.

datasets

survival analysis: descriptive statistics, two-sample
  tests, parametric accelerated failure models, Cox model. Delayed entry
  (truncation) allowed for all models; interval censoring for parametric
  models. Case-cohort designs.

Thomas Lumley

survival

Survival analysis, including penalised likelihood.

veteran function

<tabular>ll</tabular>{
    trt:	1=standard 2=testcelltype:	1=squamous,  2=smallcell,  3=adeno,  4=largetime:	survival timestatus:	censoring statuskarno:	Karnofsky performance score (100=good)diagtime:	months from diagnosis to randomisationage:	in yearsprior:	prior therapy 0=no, 1=yes}

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D Kalbfleisch and RL Prentice (1980),
  <em>The Statistical Analysis of Failure Time Data</em>.
  Wiley, New York.

veteran: Veterans' Administration Lung Cancer study

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