Veterans' Administration Lung Cancer study

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

Usage

veteran
data(cancer, package="survival")

Format

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, 10=yes

Source

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