bladder               package:survival               R Documentation

_B_l_a_d_d_e_r _C_a_n_c_e_r _R_e_c_u_r_r_e_n_c_e_s

_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

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

_U_s_a_g_e:

     bladder
     bladder2

_F_o_r_m_a_t:

     bladder

       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 

       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)

_S_o_u_r_c_e:

     LJ Wei, DY Lin, L Weissfeld (1989), Regression analysis of
     multivariate incomplete failure time data by modeling marginal
     distributions. _Journal of the American Statistical Association_,
     *84*.

