| pbc2 {JM} | R Documentation |
Followup of 312 randomised patients with primary biliary cirrhosis, a rare autoimmune liver disease, at Mayo Clinic.
A data frame with 1945 observations on the following 20 variables.
idyearsstatusalive, transplanted and dead.drugplacebo and D-penicil.agesexmale and female.yearascitesNo and Yes.hepatomegalyNo and Yes.spidersNo and Yes.edemaNo edema (i.e., no edema and no diuretic therapy for edema),
edema no diuretics (i.e., edema present without diuretics, or edema resolved by diuretics), and
edema despite diuretics (i.e., edema despite diuretic therapy).serBilirserCholalbuminalkalineSGOTplateletsprothrombinhistologicstatus2
The data frame pbc2.id contains the first measurement for each patient. This data frame is used to
fit the survival model.
http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/datasets/pbcseq
Fleming, T. and Harrington, D. (1991) Counting Processes and Survival Analysis. Wiley, New York.
Therneau, T. and Grambsch, P. (2000) Modeling Survival Data: Extending the Cox Model. Springer-Verlag, New York.
summary(pbc2.id)