Cancer survival {epicalc}R Documentation

Dataset on cancer survival

Description

A dataset on cancer survival checking whether there is a survival difference between cancer patients in private and public hospitals.

Usage

data(Compaq)

Format

A data frame with 1064 observations on the following 7 variables.

id
a numeric vector
hospital
a factor with levels Public hospital Private hospital
status
a numeric vector
stage
a factor with levels Stage 1 Stage 2 Stage 3 Stage 4
agegr
a factor with levels <40 40-49 50-59 60+
ses
a factor with levels Rich High-middle Poor-middle Poor
year
a numeric vector indicating the year of recruitment into the study

Examples

data(Compaq)
use(Compaq)
des()

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