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survival (version 2.38-3)

rats: Rat treatment data from Mantel et al

Description

Rat treatment data from Mantel et al. Three rats were chosen from each of 100 litters, one of which was treated with a drug, and then all followed for tumor incidence.

Usage

rats

Arguments

format

ll{ litter: litter number from 1 to 100 rx: treatment,(1=drug, 0=control) time: time to tumor or last follow-up status: event status, 1=tumor and 0=censored sex: male or female }

source

N. Mantel, N. R. Bohidar and J. L. Ciminera. Mantel-Haenszel analyses of litter-matched time to response data, with modifications for recovery of interlitter information. Cancer Research, 37:3863-3868, 1977.

References

E. W. Lee, L. J. Wei, and D. Amato, Cox-type regression analysis for large number of small groups of correlated failure time observations, in "Survival Analysis, State of the Art", Kluwer, 1992.